Extremely disappointing, I had hoped Apple would stop caring once things got to the point of "the user has a MacBook and iPhone, now they want to run something

Extremely disappointing, I had hoped Apple would stop caring once things got to the point of "the user has a MacBook and iPhone, now they want to run something on them". I'd say maybe Beeper could be the local SMS app (no iMessage) and bridge that way but I think that's still not possible on iPhone even after the DMA changes. The best possibility remaining would be something like the Google Voice(or other VOIP) bridge they've floated. 10 years later and I'm still waiting for something that worked as 2014 era Hangouts - everything in one app or web page on any device you use.