Paranoid? Telegram CEO was arrested and held for days, his movements out of France restricted for months. And he is a connected billionaire, not an open source developer.

Open source developers have been given jail sentences in the last months.

If you're a broke open source developer - even if you believe under the law you're not doing anything wrong - would you want to be exposed to law enforcement harassment (lawfare) for no reason?

Also: chat control.