Then once they have that in place they can just do all the monitoring through the screen of the device itself, since all content has to pass through there.
It's much easier to do that than to try to mandate a backdoor to every service in the world. Of coruse it is even more disastrous to user privacy but I honestly think that's the goal not the bug.
We might one day have it natively with ipv6 adoption increasing.
You share some "semi-public" host with all of your friends...
And then you're not necessarily chatting with famous people, but you can have a near-and-dear-social network of people you actually know...
I enjoyed messaging much more although it would be impractical for me nowadays due to moving to a different time zone.