Since the outset of Matrix, our aim has always been to provide a protocol that lets you build open, decentralised, secure communication apps which outperform the mainstream centralised alternatives. It’s been a twisty journey - first focusing on making Matrix work at all (back in 2014), and then getting it out of beta with Matrix 1.0 in 2019, and now focusing on making Matrix fast, usable and mainstream-ready with Matrix 2.0.
Sadly the new ElementX client is completely unusable missing 80% of the necessary features. The only real progress here (that would call for a 2.0 celebration) is the actually very nice new call system. That only works on element-desktop and elementx however. So no calls are possible with mobile users unless they use the very much not ready for use elementx.
I know this is about the protocol and not the clients, but in the end what matters to users are visible improvements to the UX.
From what i can see they dont seem to have any intentions of improving feature richness of elementx significantly but they are planning on discontinuing the non x version. Im a little confused with their messaging recently.
The protocol supports lots of cool features but if the mobile client will only support a small fraction of those, then whats the point?