I appreciate that response, very detailed. To be clear I don't blame Google for not fixing the RCS thing. I just dont see them making any progress. Even if RCS gets through, every android messaging service is still far behind Apple and would take awhile to catch up. iMessage can send payments, play games, has custom reactions, a whole ton of stuff.

And fingerprint is nice, but most android phones have switched to under the screen readers and I just can't. They're extremely inconvenient when compared to scanning my face which is always looking at the device anyways.

And the OS support is a sticking point. Google and Samsung both suck at this and I can point it out using the Material You thing they did. When it came out, I had no idea what the features were. I had to go watch videos and even then, it didn't seem like a big upgrade. Because it wasn't a big functional upgrade for me. And then Samsung had no clue when it would even come to my Note 10 device. So I was left going: what is this update? When will I have it? And why should I care?. I couldn't answer any of those and its a problem with every Google update imo. Because some features only come go the pixel. And then others will be changed by Samsung.

Not to mention that Google doesn't provide support for their features anyways and frequently drops them. Like Apple arcade crushes it while the best that Google can do with gaming is just do a poor imitation of it with zero support.

So I'm just a little tired of thinking that android phones will improve these things and thought I'd at least try the other side for a change.