I tried out Messenger just now, and it's getting better, but it's still a far cry from Textra. However, I noticed that it has different colors for each contact icon (their initials) in the message list. It would be great if Textra would propagate the color I've selected for a contact's text bubbles up to the initials in the message list.

At the same time, it would be great to see either a global or per-contact setting whether to show the contact's picture. To be honest, there are just some people whose face I don't want to see all the time...!