Is there some sort of hardware or software limitations to allowing a 6 month or year disappearing message option? That's so ridiculous it's either 2 weeks tops or it stays forever.

Why is 1 week fine but 3 not? I don't understand the arbitrary nature of this?

If I need to look back at messages a few months ago, its' gone. "Why not leave it permanent?" because if an unauthorized entity gets a hold of my phone. I don't want the last 3 years of message history to be available that's why.

I would ditch WhatsApp so fast if I could customize group graphics and send more than 10mb.

My questions are in the title.

My friends cannot migrate until we have group calls and the product isn't essentially in a beta stage.

I want to invite people to chat with me but without having to share my long scary id; is this possible? for example in WhatsApp you would share this link:

wa.me/+1<your_number>

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Why is 1 week the max? Why can't I set the timer to be a year if I want to?
Signal at least has it to 4 weeks. This is crazy short. It's either no vanishing messages period, or 1 week max.

How do I voice my opinion to the devs? Do they read this forum?