I feel you on this too Jog...but I've come to the line of thinking that there have been 2 MAJOR Wear OS updates (the big 2.1 update [that supposedly broke the originally working Message+ app on Wear OS] that streamlined a lot of the native app and other 3rd party app comparability -- ironic that it made our messaging app not work -- as well as what is being called the "H update" which is supposed to really help battery life and processing [CPU {on our very outdated Snapdragon 2100} tweaking I believe]) that it's hard to put off and ignore the potential benefits just to keep the verizon text messaging compatibility capability.

In the end, it's a really garbage situation (as we've all expressed) with very limited options and hard decisions making too much "compromises" being necessary it seems where it seems that, either way, you're losing (something)...

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