The AOSP is a huge success and phones are really only the tip of the iceberg, android runs everywhere and is basically responsible for the mainstream adoption of “smart” devices.
It’s a small OS that runs on basically anything and you can stick it on most computers regardless of how strange the hardware setup is.
Is it perfect? No, as a project android is basically maintained by Google alone and Google obviously doesn’t think it’s perfect, or fuschia wouldn’t exist.
I’m not sure this is a fair comparison, since this is only coming to RCS and not SMS my (completely unsubstantiated) guess would be that this is a message protocol issue.
On the other hand Signal is an encrypted internet messaging service and editing internet messages has been easy for everyone not named twitter for years.
If it wasn’t for the game awards section at the top of the page I would’ve dismissed this as “they bought the domain from someone else” wtf it looks like some kinda cat fashion webstore.
Maybe that was a website template? IDK how to explain this lol.