As long as the protocol is open and has encryption you don't need to care much about that. Packets on the internet travel through thousands of different machines around the world. You are either using encryption or the whole world is reading your message anyway. There is nothing in-between. If you even want to hide metadata, you would need to use something like Session.

Paying more for a less durable device is not what I prefer to do.

I would prefer session but messages aren't reliable. They can come late or out of order, if the core functionality makes you trouble you can't make convince other people to use it.