I may be too much of a computer nerd to notice when using them both
That’s probably true of just about everyone on Lemmy.
What does Telegram do better and how?
User experience, like I said. How many less technically inclined people do you know who will understand why they have no message history in Signal after moving devices? Yes, they could have kept it if they’d had backups enabled and moved the archive over and restored from it, but it’s too late now, their entire contact list has been notified that their safety number’s changed (another aspect we get to attempt to explain). It’s a bummer.
I don’t see what you’re describing 🤷 Soon only appears once on the page and not in this context for me.
I do notice that the product comparison chart lists the same 100 user limit for self-hosted.