Agreed. I&#x27;m unfortunately forced to use the Hangouts app on android since Google Voice was smushed into it (losing 90% of its best features in the process, like being able to mark voicemails as spam). So now I&#x27;m stuck doing my texting shoehorned alongside this other chat app that none of my friends use except by accident when they meant to send a text.<p>Now Google&#x27;s decided to split SMS back out into a separate SMS app, so god only knows what&#x27;s going to happen to Google Voice texting in that transition. I think the Voice team got merged into the hangouts team and shortly reassigned, and then everyone who was left on the hangouts team was moved a month or two after that.<p>Next time I replace my phone I&#x27;m just going to bite the bullet and port my phone number back out to a real carrier. It&#x27;s a bummer, since this is the only Google product that I&#x27;ve ever paid them actual <i>money</i> for.