How the fuck they decide what is a burner vs a phone owned by people who don't like getting raped by the likes of AT&T is beyond me.
Edit: Per suggestion below, one option is textverified.com. I have verified this works. You can pay with crypto. As little as 75c
The one argument I have against having dozens of messaging apps where everyone wants a different app is that each one takes processing power and memory to monitor for messages. This is especially a problem on mobile phones
I was able to run 4 different IM programs and an IRC client with no problems on a desktop with a Celeron measured in mhz instead of ghz and 128 MB of RAM that was probably 1/10th as fast as modern RAM 20 years ago and I could still browse webpages that were more responsive than modern web designs.
That's before websites used 10s of MBs of just JavaScript and every app is no less than 50MB with most being hundreds.