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I think this is mostly an issue in the US. The rest of the world uses a variety of messaging apps instead of text messaging. Here in South Africa WhatsApp and Telegram are prevalent.
Genuine question here: why? Text messaging that comes with the phone is easier to use than installing 20 different apps to talk to 20 different people. Is this a younger generation thing? "I just like it better" was the only response my daughter gave for this. That's nice and all if it's one person but if everyone does is, that's a lot of work. I don't even talk to that many people yet I have to use a different app to talk to every person I know.
Cellphone network fees have historically been ridiculously expensive, when I was young a single SMS message cost about 80c, whilst for 10x that fee I could get enough data to send hundreds of WhatsApp or similar data-based messages.
In time providers tried to draw more subscribers to their networks by making the data used by messaging apps like WhatsApp free, so even if you had no prepaid airtime (in Africa most people use prepaid airtime) you could still send messages with these apps even though you couldn't SMS.
These days messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram (the latter especially) are just simply more feature-rich than SMS, and you're not locked into a specific hardware platform such as iPhone & Mac with iMessage.
You probably mean Mxit back in the days!
Oh yeah, I've forgotten about Mxit! Wow, that brings back memories. 😁