> Use Signal. Or Wire, or WhatsApp, or some other Signal-protocol-based secure messenger.
That's a "great" idea considering the recent legal developments in the EU, which OpenPGP, as bad as it is, doesn't suffer from. It would be great if the author updated his advice into something more future-proof.
There's no future-proof suggestion that's immune to the government declaring it a crime.
If you want a suggestion for secure messaging, it's Signal/WhatsApp. If you want to LARP at security with a handful of other folks, GPG is a fine way to do that.