From the subheading:<p>> Lack of encryption was one SMS shortcoming that RCS was created to solve.<p>No it was not. Google added encryption but it was not part of the standard until recently. RCS itself was <i>not</i> created, in part or in whole, to provide E2EE. That it has it now is great (in the standard, broad rollout still to come), but it should not be misrepresented as some privacy-centric service.
Why on earth didn't it have e2e encryption by default from the start??<p>My bet is because everyone involved wanted the ability to snoop messages...