GPG is fine if properly configured and very carefully used.
The current defaults GPG presents aren't that safe anymore and everyone who wants to develop integration with GPG suffers extreme pain because for GPG therer is only the CLI Interface.
Modern E2EE-capable chat solutions are a good replacement, which are cryptographically stronger and don't have the same chances of blowing up as GPG does.
I don't think it's that much of a conspiracy there is a bit of time between those events, it's simply that in the latest years, people are advocating for security tools that prefer being resistant to misuse (GPG isn't) and safe by default (GPG isn't) over other tools.
> The current defaults GPG presents aren't that safe anymore and everyone who wants to develop integration with GPG suffers extreme pain because for GPG therer is only the CLI Interface.
Entirely true.
> Modern E2EE-capable chat solutions are a good replacement, which are cryptographically stronger and don't have the same chances of blowing up as GPG does.
I'm not convinced. Most or all of these chat solutions seem to involve closed-source code, single-vendor implementations, closed networks, complicated protocols that lead to incomplete analysis, lack of pseudonymity, and an embrace of closed-source operating systems and hardware, and I think those things are still just as worrying as they were 10 years ago. I'm all for improving on the safety and usability of GPG, but I don't think the tradeoff in overall security that we're currently offered is a good one.
The current defaults GPG presents aren't that safe anymore and everyone who wants to develop integration with GPG suffers extreme pain because for GPG therer is only the CLI Interface.
Modern E2EE-capable chat solutions are a good replacement, which are cryptographically stronger and don't have the same chances of blowing up as GPG does.
I don't think it's that much of a conspiracy there is a bit of time between those events, it's simply that in the latest years, people are advocating for security tools that prefer being resistant to misuse (GPG isn't) and safe by default (GPG isn't) over other tools.