Google had a great thing with the integration between Google Fi SMS and Hangouts. They could have added E2E encryption and had a comparable product to iMessage.

Google had a great thing with the integration between Google Fi SMS and Hangouts. They could have added E2E encryption and had a comparable product to iMessage. Instead they killed it and switched to the next messaging system flavor of the week and now I can now longer see SMS messages in my gmail window and the whole thing is much worse.