still unsure how this decision made it through.
As a growing company, I don't know how they expect to get away by alienating their staunch userbase. Even Meta made concessions when Whatsapp userbase revolted against upcoming changes.
In the meantime, Google have revamped their messages app, which of course continues to support SMS.
Just for fun now I installed it to use as my default SMS app after this whole hullabaloo with SMS removal, I use Johann's fork, so I am just curious how long it will keep working as Signal messenger with no APK expiration. Though I am definitely not telling anyone I am using it, tried to isntall it on wife's phone, never received verifying message or phone call, no matter how much I tried and mind she has the regular phone with almost stock ROM, while I use Lineage with no gapps.
I will ditch it in a second, if there will be other IM with SMS support other than Facebook Messenger and Skype (Lite), ideally some Matrix client with SMS support, that I could promote even to my family.