Exactly. Very bad name, too techy for the average folk and it doesn't have the same network effect as Signal or Telegram. I disagree that it is ahead of Signal for usability in fact it is still behind.
Although I do praise it for not requiring and collecting my phone number and being a bit more future-proof and decentralised, unlike Signal and Telegram.
But in terms of getting my friends grandmother over it, it completely loses on usability and its name is so confusing to them you just had to also mention the Matrix protocol, when it is just Element. which even that by itself is very ambiguous.
Although I do praise it for not requiring and collecting my phone number and being a bit more future-proof and decentralised, unlike Signal and Telegram.
But in terms of getting my friends grandmother over it, it completely loses on usability and its name is so confusing to them you just had to also mention the Matrix protocol, when it is just Element. which even that by itself is very ambiguous.