This is nice, and I prefer it to the combined hangouts app as I tend to receive a lot of hangouts and few SMS and yet the SMS are sometimes important and effect

This is nice, and I prefer it to the combined hangouts app as I tend to receive a lot of hangouts and few SMS and yet the SMS are sometimes important and effectively this filtered view (by using two apps) makes it easier and quicker to find a specific SMS. I also like that it's now a little clearer how to block a number. They were under similar interfaces in the hangouts app but because it was combined it wasn't as clear. It would be good for the times that I do get SMS spam if Google partnered with the telcos in such a way that Google reported back spam and offered a "Report Spam" button in addition to the block option. The material design really does make the Hangouts app look dated and clunky by comparison.