I'm glad Ars seems to have walked back its transphobia after the absolute shit-show that was its article about twitter screening a self identified fascist's transphobic screed that somehow came down on the side of the fascist.
Funny you mention green bubbles, Apple has said they would pull iMessage and FaceTime from the UK rather than add a backdoor. Signal and WhatsApp have also said they would leave the market rather than comply and Google has opposed the bill but I haven’t personally seen any reporting on if they said they’d pull services from the UK.
I've been using 1Password since at least 2010 and been very happy with it so I've never seriously considered switching away from it. I've messed around with Bitwarden and thought it was pretty good though.