The point is not to force this idiocy on people. Losing my messages and contacts when setting up a new device is actually a great feature. I regularly delete them and signal even has a feature to do so automatically. And forcing people to create a pin in the ui is just lousy ux. Until I read this article, I had no idea what that meant and just wanted it to go away. Now I want it to go away even more.

Edit: it's especially stupid if you can't use a pw manager with it. I haven't tried it because I don't want to set one. Once I'm forced, I'm going to ditch signal. Fuck that.