For me, the big surprise here is that Google Voice is still receiving any active development at all. Last I heard, the Voice team had been handed over to Hangou

For me, the big surprise here is that Google Voice is still receiving any active development at all. Last I heard, the Voice team had been handed over to Hangouts, though I don't know if that was just a rumor. I can't remember the last time the Google Voice app received any update at all, and it's definitely been years since it received any non-trival, non-bugfix update. Not that I'm really complaining - it works well enough that I'd be more afraid that any update would break it by forcing me to use Hangouts or Google+ to use my Voice account. But it would be nice to, for example, have the Google Voice notifications support quick actions the way the stock messaging app on Android/CM does, and the way the Gmail app does.