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.