SMS is on it's death bed. XMPP based messaging is where it's at. The only reason the move hasn't been made quicker is because carriers don't want to lose out on the SMS profits.
Google is going to sell out now and integrate SMS. Kind of disappointed in them.

Everybody doesn't use a messaging app to send texts though. It's a good thing that they're integrating SMS into Hangouts, they need to make it the standard Android messaging app and have it in all of their version of Android. That's where they need to go with this.

from what i hear it was pretty hit or miss with people. I almost always went with a Senseless rom 



Got to put there security on it. 