While I’m happy that Apple are standing their ground I don’t know of a single person who uses FaceTime or iMessage over WhatsApp here
It seems a third of users use iMessage [0].
You not knowing one of 20 million people in your country seems more like a curiosity of why your social circle is so similar.
[0] https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1328650/imessage-messenge...
Your link would have been sufficient.
I struggle with thinking “I don’t see it, so it must be so” and wish others would point this out more for me.
Also, I kind of like snarky as it is closer to authenticity, I think, than always saying “good job, did you think of it this way…”