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No one said the opposite, while on WhatsApp they had several vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to get the user phone control.
An example: https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/new-whatsapp-bug-couldve-let-attackers.html
But there were many more vulnerabilities or "features" that WhatsApp allowed attackers or governments to get into user data. While I haven't read anything about against Telegram security.
It is secure as secure is logging into your bank account from your web browser.
I think you are mixing concepts, encryptions isn't related to "secure" but to "privacy". On my example, your data on bank is encrypted via SSL which the server has the private key to read it, but it is encrypted. Telegram is the same, your messages are being encrypted by a public key owned by the server, but it is encrypted, just not end to end.
You were talking about security, not about privacy.
I'm not talking about privacy, if you read the first replies from this thread you will see I expose some examples how easy is to exploit WhatsApp, that's a security issue, not a privacy issue.
Remember you said: "like Telegram doesn’t encrypt most messages therefore by design is already not secure and user data is readable."
And I replied to you that no one said Telegram was unsafe, there were no exploits or any security issues, while on WhatsApp, many issues have been found.
Returning to your initial phrase:
"secures messages content from unwanted eyes" is called privacy. Stop mixing the two concepts.