Very true, glad I didn't have anything super essential in the chats, but still peeved as there were a couple of nice interactions I had that I would occasionally look back on.

Nope, Android itself is not restrictive, it's the extra add-ons by vendors that cause restrictions.

Just a heads up, PC game pass won't be increasing in price and the games that are being removed are Exo One, Paw Patrol, and Spelunky 2. Xbox removes games from the game pass rotation quite often, wasn't too happy when they removed Katamari Damacy.

What phone do you use? I recall my call recording app stopped working a couple years ago due to some Google permission thing.