ok a few people have asked and I never answered because I knew I'd get a million quote posts (sorry), but here's the official stance on E2EE DMs
tl;dr: 100% planned, but not right now in order to get the basic feature out there asap :)
nice thing about this way around from the perspective of us appers is that we'll have already done the UI stuff, so E2EE will be easy peasy. cant say the same for the backend bois though lmao