@heydon I was off it for the longest time and then eventually had to bite the bullet and use it as a secondary messenger for two reasons:

1. A bunch of businesses (in South Africa) uses WhatsApp as a support channel and good luck if you are not on it
2. Some people just refused to install another messenger and either had WhataApp or Telegram. seeing that WhatsApp at least uses the Signal protocol, it seems like the lesser of two evils.