@fu My problems with Element are partly UX (which fluffy chat may fix) and partly that my (very old) account is borked in a way which means I can't get message encryption to work.
(I foolishly acted as a guinea-pig for one of Matthew's demos at FOSDEM some years back and my matrix.org account has been out of whack ever since) - I should really wipe it and start again.
But. If I can't get it to work, then I can't advise others to.