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I agree; however, the second point I don't see as Signal specific. In any service, how do you verify that a server is running unmodified open source code? For the vast majority of people, they are also depending upon the client being unmodified.
If you could run your own Signal instance, then that could help alleviate concerns of bad faith operators. That's what Session is essentially (started as a fork of Signal): https://getsession.org