They’ve gone in on matrix pretty hard at this point

Literally the next sentence in the article:

Digital wallets […] have exploded in popularity but are not captured by Australian payments law.

The article doesn’t bother explaining what specifically the law does.

cringe. It’s actually good to take action to reduce harm.

Then why are they protesting action that will end the war faster?

Ah sorry, I missed that!

This might be more of a hack than you’re looking for, but you could probably install age in termux and put together a small shell script to operate it.

I think the reason you’re not finding what you’re looking for is because another widely agreed upon problem with pgp is that it is a generic encryption and signing tool and those turn out to be a bit of a UX nightmare. Building purpose-specific encryption into other applications tends to have much safer UX, that also tends to be less confusing.

That being said, age may do some of what you’re looking for. I don’t think it does signing but it does do encryption.

Lack of high speed rail isn’t caused by lack of knowledge about how to do it. High speed rail exists in some places, just not the US.