The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world. After its publication in 2013, the Signal Protocol was adopted not only by Signal but well beyond. Technical informat...
Chats to Whatsapp would still be E2EE.
They would also collect all of the metadata that would make you NOT want to use WhatsApp in the first place.