Your tl;dr appears to be missing some important data. You can have an opinion but please don’t represent it as an accurate summary.
Things you crucially missed:
Can you be more specific?
Just get a bigger screen. But you can’t buy bigger screens these days except as smart TVs or monitors… And those smart screens can detect when you aren’t interacting with them and display ads…
Messages between two people are not exposed via public APIs, but they can be accessed by admins of 1-2 servers (depending on whether you’re sending these messages to someone on a different server).
Element fixes Lemmy’s message content exposure problem, but none of the metadata problems (who is communicating with whom, when, how often, etc, are all still available to those 1-2 sets of server admins).
FWIW Ente just added photo editing
To be fair, the article itself recommends it.
Way back in 2023, Matrix was the jack of all trades but the master of none. It wanted to replace Discord but the video messaging was not stable enough. It wanted to replace Slack but message searching didn’t really work. It was still struggling to get a decent client and server implementation, and message loading times were a huge pain point.
Fast forward to today, most of the problems are still there. Give it a couple more years to cook.