Hello! I'm a USian, so my telecom situation might be really weird when compared to the rest of the world, IDK.

> It’s better than SMS...

If it guarantees timely and in-order delivery, then yes, it's better than SMS. If it doesn't, no matter what else it does it's just as bad.

> ...and is the new industry standard.

Odd. The only RCS messages I receive are spam. Literally zero legitimate entities send me RCS messages.

Plus, I heard that Google's shipping this "Feed us more metadata about who you're calling and when!" service that's billed as a "Ensure the caller calling you is actually on an Android(TM) or iPhone(TM) phone!" "safety" feature. No thanks.