Hell even Telegram(esp in earlier days) looks like a Whatsapp re-skin to the untrained eye

Heh? I mean, how many ways could a chat app look? At one point, it’s just a list of conversations, clicking on one showing a list of messages.

There's tons of chat products that don't look like telegram or whatsapp. Have you used both of them?

Maybe they are now ( haven't used Whatsapp in a while ), but not 5-10 years ago

I discovered telegram around 2017 and I thought it was a fake whatsapp at first. Idk about 10 years ago, but 5 years ago it def did look like a re-skin