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Yeah I think you are right. I too was really mad at Signal for ditching sms, and THEN having the audacity to ask for donations! This article shines a light on the reasons, wow.
Still, I would only donate if they kept sms in there. Not without sms because now it's just one more isolated platform and no longer a one-stop solution at it used to be.
The sms cost is for account creation and verification on new devices, being an sms client didn't cost anything aside from maintaining that portion of the app
A bit of transparency at the beginning would've helped...