Comment by omeze

It wasn't meant to be "private" in the e2e sense. It was just meant to be a modern reimagining of Ventrilo/TeamSpeak, which were group chat programs for gamers. The video call stuff came after (since it was strange to not have video if you were already voice chatting in the year 201X). They want to branch outside of servicing online gaming communities but that was their origin, and you can still see how that culture affects their product design today. A good way of understanding the product is to just ask "would online gaming communities use this?".