You can disable stories. The UX still is shit. Again, death by a thousand cuts. As for Indonesia or whatever, I am sure people Stories increases engagement that boosts Signal executives morale thinking they are more relevant and can stick it to Zuck. I just don’t want it in a serious messaging app that hopes to be used in place of iMessage or Google Messages and since we are debating opinions, I take Apple’s judgement on design over aggregate clicks from Indonesians.

Do you have some basis for what you say? It's just a rant at this point; it hardly has a specific criticism and fabricates things about people you probably don't know. Whatever you think, that doesn't make it so.

Stories was a specific criticism; was it not?

I understand that our opinions don't agree, so I cite Apple's market research and design decision to bolster my case.

But I will stop there. Maybe just peddle your BS to ask folks to shut up elsewhere. Who are you even to know whom I know or not?