Arguably things are now worse. Signal combined the safety number of you and your correspondent into one really big number[1]. The result is a less intuitive as a number no longer represents the identity of a correspondent.

Signal has been having multiple issues due to the poor usability of their identity management lately[2].

[1] Safety number updates https://signal.org/blog/safety-number-updates/

[2]

A Third Party Breached The Intercept’s Signal Tip Line and Has Been Soliciting Whistleblowers https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/intercept-signal-tip-line-bre...

Twilio Incident: What Signal Users Need to Know https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4850133017242-T...

Russian State-Backed Hackers Intensify Attacks on Signal Messenger Accounts https://thecyberexpress.com/signal-attacks-russian-fackers-t...

End to End Encrypted Messaging in the News: An Editorial Usability Case Study (my article) https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=em:sg