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There will be more privacy, because there will be more Signal-to-Signal chats.
Also, SMS support is vastly less secure, yet Signal users loved that, and there was backlash/mass exodus when they dropped support.
As I already stated: privacy. People want privacy, but they also want people to talk to.
If Signal can only speak to Signal, nobody will get Signal because then you can't talk to anybody. And there's no point of a chat app where you can't talk to anybody.
Add interoperability and suddenly people are more willing to try Signal because you won't be a social outcast with nobody to talk to anymore. Suddenly you have a few contacts that are on signal and find the app convenient to use. Then the users grow from there. Meaning more Signal-to-Signal chats.
I've started that 3 or 4 times now.
I also don't appreciate how you appear to be acting like speaking with WhatsApp users is mandatory. It'd be an optional feature just like the (vastly less secure/private) SMS was. Even for those people, this change would be a major win, because they'd have more people to talk to as more people join the app.