I've never had the Facebook app installed on my phone (Android). Messenger Lite worked great, until recently. Now that they've shut that down, I'm using regul

I've never had the Facebook app installed on my phone (Android). Messenger Lite worked great, until recently. Now that they've shut that down, I'm using regular Messenger, which sucks, but I finally got it working by forcing a stop and clearing the cache. You really shouldn't need the Facebook app on your phone to use Messenger in my experience, but who knows what kind of shenanigans they're pulling. I seriously wonder what the Messenger app is doing. It's far larger than Messenger Lite was (way more than double), yet it's essentially the same thing: a chat app with video and voice chat. The full-blown app also adds Dark Mode (the only improvement I've found), and some silly sticker crap. So WTF else is going on in that app to need all that storage space?