It its something of concern for you, its impossible to find it hard to know if your messaging app is by Google or not. Additionally, a Samsung sms app is reall

It its something of concern for you, its impossible to find it hard to know if your messaging app is by Google or not. Additionally, a Samsung sms app is really not third party on a Samsung phone. And lastly, the biggest concern about this on android is usually "how to get out of Google control" so being able to replace a core app like this by any that you prefer be it Google, Samsung or a special privacy oriented one is hardly something I can consider a disadvantage.