Is RCS with Google Messages worth having Google on my phone?

ZenByte: > But for non-close contacts and random people that message me, due to living in the USA, people will always default to messaging via SMS/MMS/RCS and you have to pull tooth and nail to get them to use anything else. This isn’t the type of off-topic thing I want to deal with when I talk to people I’m not close with or when I meet new people I feel this in my bones