Am I in a bubble and these features are, in fact, widely used on WhatsApp?

I'm in groups with a whole lot of other people including a few who keep up with modern social media stuff, use TikTok, use Instagram, et c., and zero of them use the Status feature or Stories or anything but messaging. For us it's just ICQ/text with better media embedding (but still really bad, somehow). Some of us regularly use similar features, but only on other platforms, never on WhatsApp.

Is that unusual, and these are in fact much-beloved features by a good chunk of the WhatsApp user-base?