It is a different use case but will still suffer from the same problem of describing the reality of range, but point to point if there are more nodes around does solve some of this. But like gateways, you need some nodes near to hand which can be pretty random - you may have a hotspot of users exchanging messages on a regular basis or you may be the only one for 10’s of kms. Meshtastic is really all about a huge number of users in an emergency when the mobile network is down whipping out their devices & using it for message exchange & relay. But like CPR, it’s a thing that the usefulness of the facility only becomes apparent at the point of requirement.