I genuinely hope so. Hopefully this serves as a great example of why you should not offer your free work to a centralized company.

Any way to actually fight these requirements?

I hope this is the end of this cult.

There aren’t so many good and free e-mail clients for Android that aren’t either a privacy nightmare or drowning under a shitload of ads (or both).

Thing with Telegram is that end-to-end encryption is not enabled by default (thus only used rarely) and Telegram doesn’t really have any viable business model, besides being funded by a billionaire. That raises some questions. I really like Telegram, though.