Suggested solution to compensate for lack of RCS
I think we mainly want to be able to send photos to friends. At the moment you can forward to your own email. I realise the phone doesn't have an email tool, and that's fine, but if the phone contacts list also included a field to add a person's email address then when we tapped on the forwarding icon under a photo we could see a list with three options: Message, Forward to Email, Forward to Contacts, and then when you tapped on Forward to Contacts you would see a list of your friend's names, tap on the person you want to send the photo to, and done.
I believe the phone is capable of that and it would be fairly straightforward to implement. And it might go some way towards making some of us feel less handicapped by the lack of RCS. It's great that Signal is coming but not everyone uses it, whereas everyone has an email address.