This is absolutely, unconditonally untrue. I can send a message to an Android user just fine. SMS is delivered as it is anywhere else. Pictures go through fine - my partner and I can, and do, regularly share pictures without any issue at all.
Why hyperbolize things and spread outright nonsense? To what possible end?
MMS in 2023 is not an acceptable fallback. We all have cameras capable of shooting amazing pictures and 4k movies.
The size limit destroys decent looking pictures and basically prevents movies from even being an option with how grainy they appear stretched out on our 4k screens.
This is ignoring all the other interactive elements that are just table stakes in any kind of messaging application that make SMS absolutely terrible in comparison.
Why hyperbolize things and spread outright nonsense? To what possible end?