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After Signal’s lie about dropping SMS support because of “engineering costs”, I really can’t believe anything else they say.
Plus the app experience sucks, it’s no better than SMS.
That’s not true, but even so, the whole point is to be an alternative to SMS. It provides that experience, so I’m happy.