True story, I've been using Matrix with Element for a while. I don't use it for anything much because no one else is on it. Some friends and I have a groupchat on Signal and we decided it would be good to have a backup method to chat if Signal breaks (or to just move to for the reasons that there are, such as not being centralized by design).

It took me at least twenty minutes to figure out how to add my friends to a room I created too long enough ago to have memorized the UI. And they added "Communities" which I created one of but cannot even tell what functionality it even provides.

I don't know if that's a client issue or not but it seems like (maybe?) it's trying to be a social network in addition to a chat app? Some kind of adding in Discord functionality or something?

I guess as long as I can not use social network features and still use it like I use Signal... to flexibly chat with whomever I know the ID of.