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“Unfortunately, those apps are more secure than texting in the clear, which is more or less the alternative. Granted, if a hostile party has access to the handset, that encryption isn’t particularly helpful.”
That’s probably why it is recommended by the US government. They like things they have control over.
If they truly didn’t care about this then they would probably mention, like, Matrix or something