For a while, before it really started to bloat, FB Messenger was the slickest, most well-rounded, most enjoyable messaging client I could find, and had the adva

For a while, before it really started to bloat, FB Messenger was the slickest, most well-rounded, most enjoyable messaging client I could find, and had the advantage that all of your friends were already on it. The bloating from Stories and everything happened to coincide with my ejection of all things Facebook from my life, but Messenger was a genuinely good product at one point. Sounds like it may be returning to that (though unfortunately that ship has sailed for other reasons).