You don’t have to write code to configure Matrix/XMPP.
You do realize that the developers need to write code to configure a Matrix/XMPP module? The module doesn’t just appear out your immagination.
Then it will need to be maintained as security holes are discovered.
Tell me again why developers should spend the time and resources to maintain a feature that at best will have a marginal impact on the userbase, over focusing on the core of the project.
Most people have no idea they exist.
That is my point.
If you write software, and need a way for it communicate with the user outside of the app, implementing email is simple, just about everyone with internet access has an email address and it is free.
XMPP/Matrix is a lot of added work that will only benefit those who:
I think you will find that the groups of persons who all three critera fits is vanishingly small.
So, please tell me why a developer should focus their time doing that rather than building the core features of the app.
EDIT:
I write this as someone who has used Jabber/XMPP and Matrix in the past, they are great services and I wish they had a longer reach. This is not a hill for you to die on.
XMPP and Matrix are not near universal.
Most people have no idea about that the hell the first one is, and are even more confused as to why you start talking about a movie when you just complained about email.
I remember a documentary about the Queen’s guard, where they mentioned that she did indeed carry small amounts of cash in her purse.
Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?
This is my prepared bottles of rum, dedicated to when I no longer needs to share a planet with these bastards
Currently I have bottles for:
Trump, Putin, Musk, Murdoch and Orban.
The last one is what has been declared “The bottle of the unknown bad guy”, it is meant for when I find out about a person dying and my immediate feeling is “Good riddance”.
You can call it bribes, I call it paying tribute to the king.
The guys know what is going on, they know that their companies futures are in the hands of a vindictive extreme narcissistic idiot of a king. They know that to be left alone they need to pay tribute to the king.
Is it a bribe or a protection racket? Yes, it is.
I had a look at the system, and it is a commercial product, I would imagine that their customers have requested these features.
Since you are a customer, why not request your features to be added as well?
Or, better yet, since you have explained that creating an XMPP/Matrix module as an alternative to email requires no coding, and the plattform is open source, why not just slap it together yourself?