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> If I get added to a group chat (any group chat, since my entire family and social circle uses iPhones), that chat is immediately degraded to potato videos, every like is now a whole string of useless text, etc.

I think this should at the very least be classified as a new dark pattern - and it sounds as if it could potentially even have antitrust implications:

Apple's strategy is effectively that users of competing products aren't just put at a disadvantage themselves, Apple will disadvantage their whole social circle and rely on social pressure to drive them back from the competitor.

This seems honestly extremely anticompetitive. (Not to mention, has icky similarities to china-style social credit systems)