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Sure, but OP and the people they want to connect with don't have to force their choice of proprietary app into others when there's a universal solution that works for all phones.
Yeah I'm not super happy with Signal's level of openness, but I also wouldn't call it proprietary. It is open source and I could run my own server if I really wanted to, but that would just make it harder.
At the time we were moving from a walled garden to one of 3 encrypted OSS solutions, and I had all of them until we naturally coalesced on one.
SMS at the time didn't work due to not having cell service, and while we "have" RCS now to solve that issue, I don't know anyone who uses it.