>2023-05-06: Based on some feedback received, I feel I need to clarify that my conclusion is not that V2 was a mistake – it's that V2 introduced additional metadata leakage which wasn't present in V1. I'm aware that solving consistency issues allowed Signal to greatly improve the usability of groups and resolve related bugs – my focus was the cost of those improvements.
>2023-05-06: Based on some feedback received, I feel I need to clarify that my conclusion is not that V2 was a mistake – it's that V2 introduced additional metadata leakage which wasn't present in V1. I'm aware that solving consistency issues allowed Signal to greatly improve the usability of groups and resolve related bugs – my focus was the cost of those improvements.