This whole Beeper situation has increased awareness that the limitations of "green bubbles" are created by Apple, not by Android devices. At least in my small social circle there seems to be a change in perspective about the problem.
Google's RCS encryption extensions are proprietary and not standardized. The limitations of "green bubbles" also apply to Google's actions. Apple has at least announced that they plan to develop a standardized end-to-end encryption extension of RCS with the GSMA. It'd be great if Google also worked together with Apple to put this nonsense behind us.
Yet another example of how much more easily and quickly lies travel than truth does.