Comment by paulie_a

The ux is very debatable. It's the same as every other messaging app now adays.

They will opt to use imessage just the same as everyone pretty much opts to whatever is already installed. You could swap out imessage with a 1990s version of aol messenger and people would opt to use that.

Apple does not have a monopoly on good ux. In fact a lot of it is just garbage