That’s a ridiculous take. Before I entered the Apple walled garden, ok, long before, my favorite texting app was Pidgin. Open source, cross platform, yadda yadda … tried to integrate with all then common texting protocols. Can you really not understand the convenience of that integration?

If Apple supports RCS in a separate app, I won’t use it even if it is installed by default.

If Apple integrates it into iMessage like they did with SMS, ill use t all the time _as a better user experience _