Their statement is compatible with a profit incentive. Companies were happy to pay to be online because it was good marketing.

It’s just pining for the time before they figured out how to target marketing and sell data

It’s simply trust in the organization that maintains the app.

Unless you’re coordination/organizing about legal grey or red areas then it’s not much danger. Meta says it’s E2E but do they really not have access to your data? I don’t believe them. Any data they have would be happily handed over to the authorities just like your protonmail.

Signal just straight up doesn’t have access since it’s all stored at the endpoint and they provide no remote backup.