I think you and I are interpreting “riffraff” differently.

I took it to mean the myriad of SMS scams and spam that is rampant outside of iMessage, not Android users broadly.

My point was that Apple isn’t caring about their users by doing this. They’re negatively impacting my ability as an Apple user to communicate with people who prefer Android, and that is a stance that affects both parties. It’s not pro user.

I suspect we’re in violent agreement that excluding-Android-as-a-feature is not a pro-user stance.