The issue is that texting, with a few interesting exceptions, completely dominates most people's daily personal communication. I mean, the "People" app on my A

The issue is that texting, with a few interesting exceptions, completely dominates most people's daily personal communication. I mean, the "People" app on my Android phone can do what he describes, but 99.99% of the time, my most recent text conversations are all I want to see when I pick up my phone to communicate. Both Hangouts and iOS's messages have convenient links to their phone app, making this pretty much a solved problem. The only notable exceptions are the privacy-oriented messengers like Snapchat... but I imagine having the messages be silo'd is more of a feature than a bug for a lot of the users.