Sovereign backups flop without UX

Governments can buy or mandate 'sovereign' alternatives to major platforms and host them on domestic infrastructure, but these systems will fail to deliver the policy goal if they are worse in everyday usability and interoperability. User rejection — staff calling Element Pro 'absolute shit' — turns a sovereignty program into a performative gesture rather than a resilient fallback. — Shows that digital‑sovereignty policy must prioritize operational usability and migration costs or risk producing expensive, unused substitutes that leave states no more resilient than before.