I gave up on Apple Music after 3 years and moved back to Spotify a month ago.

Apple Music pros:

• really good UI (including light/dark mode)
• spatial & lossless audio
• included in Apple One subscription

Apple Music cons:

• no crossfade (still! In 2023!) - useless for parties
• thinks I want to listen to my Christmas playlist in June
• generally terrible music suggestion compared to Spotify
• no ‘playlist radio’ (again, compared to Spotify)
• music discovery massively sub-par compared to Spotify

iPhone’s don’t use RCS, so AFAIK, no they can’t. When an Android messages an iPhone, the iPhone falls back to sms which does not support reactions.

The dog or the place?