> ...worse visual cues

I'm on Android, and SMS notifications look exactly like every other notification (with one caveat I'll mention below), so I don't know what this guy is on about.

> ...SMSs are just push notificatons with a worse UI...

By this, does OP mean that shit where programs can put buttons and bigass images into their notifications? If yes, I don't want that shit. That's just more opportunity to accidentally trigger unwanted behavior with one's fat fingers, and more screen space gobbled up by overly-self-important software.

The thing that's shitty about SMS is that it's "worst^Wbest effort" delivery... which means that messages can (and will) get delivered late, out of order, or never. Don't use SMS; use email. Email is also best-effort, but -based on my personal experience- far more email server operators give a shit about delivering your messages than SMS relay operators.