I think the biggest problem is not the green bubbles but the damn group chats. There’s no way to have a group chat with multiple iPhones and androids without it turning into a mess. I don’t know where to point the blame it that situation but it does make you want to stick to the dominant platform.
What kind of a mess are we talking about here? I haven’t had any group chat issues (android and iOS participants) for the last few years.. I do remember it would bug out on occasion but I just haven’t seen any of that in a long time. I have a 3 and a 10 person group chat that has both android and iOS users… dont know if there is some threshold before issues start cropping up.