Beeper is free now and it’s native chat is Matrix, but it also supports whatsapp, iMessage, and Signal along with Google RCS. It doesn’t get rid of your WhatsApp entirely (unless you can switch your friends to Matrix) but it does seem like a good solution to at least consolidate all that stuff.

That’s my next step. I have 8 8tb drives I need to start swapping, 2x512 NVMEs for system/app cache, and 1 2tb NVME for media cache.

If there’s a LAN mode you can do a virtual lan and play that way, I remember doing that with Dying Light