That’s what I don’t get - people buy locked down stuff and then complain that it’s locked down. There are plenty of alternatives that aren’t locked down.
By FairPhone, use Signal, use Webapps, etc.
I don’t get the defeatist mentality.
And in many cases, you don't have a choice to use Signal or etc. What if all your contacts are using iMessage? Sure, most of them will have SMS, but that's not guaranteed. There will always be edge cases of users who are locked in due to situations outside of their control. Shouldn't we be trying to make things less locked down for them?
Take this site for example - it doesn’t display Reddit posts or work with your Reddit account.
It’s not worth energy complaining to the administrators saying that it should work with your Reddit account.
The same relationship exists with iMessage and signal