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Just delete it now. Tell your friends that you're moving because of all the tech oligarchs that just got handed the keys to the government and the economy. Tell your friends that Signal is run by a 501(c)3 nonprofit and actually cares about privacy.
I left Meta products in 2010, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. You deserve not to "be the product" anymore.
Unfortunately this doesn't actually work. Even if people do try Signal, they see they only have one or two contacts, and they go back to WhatsApp.
So they either keep Signal around and be able to talk to you, or they don't. They don't need to stop using WA to use Signal.
If they don't want to do that, it'd mean that you would have to keep WA around for the one or two contacts you have there (and only there), which is somewhat comparable, actually, if you disregard the "but meta is short for metastasis, actually" bit.
Which one of the two it ends up being is between you and your contacts.