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Matrix has been struggling with the "fast" part of the equation for a long time, and it's more complex, technical, and visually overbearing than Discord.
For just one example, servers. In Discord, a "server" is the second level of hierarchy just below the app itself. Underneath that there are channel groups, then channels. The structure is simple, and a hierarchy is simple.
In Matrix, a server is something that runs an instance, and instances crosscut channels and channel groups. It's no longer necessarily clear which server "hosts" a channel, or how to correctly refer to it when inviting friends, or how mechanisms of censorship might work if someone gets kicked out of an instance, or federation is disrupted, etc.