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> One of the main reasons I recommend Signal is because there is no plaintext mode to accidentally use.

We were talking about _email_.

Yes, and highlighting a failing in email that cannot be fixed, but which is addressed in other services where confidentiality is desired.

Email is not remotely comparable to Signal.

Email is a free, open source, strictly defined and consensual decentralised protocol.

Signal is a source available app and server that is not decentralised and represents a walled garden. Signal is centrally controlled by OWS.

In the context of sending something.

No need to get pedantic