Samsung no longer shipping with Samsung Messages in the USA

https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-messages-not-pre-installed-galaxy-phones-usa/
Samsung has been shipping its Galaxy phones and tablets with its in-house
Messages app for years, but the company has stopped doing that recently in
some markets. The Samsung Messages app no longer comes pre-installed on the
company's new smartphones, at least in the USA.
The writing has been on the wall for this move since 2022 when Samsung
started shipping its phones with Google Messages as the default messaging
app in some regions. While the company shipped its phones with Samsung
Messages pre-installed, it wasn't the default messaging option. This was
around the same time Google started focusing on RCS.
Even though Samsung Messages supports RCS, the South Korean firm is pushing
the Google Messages app to its users. Google might have made a deal with
Android OEMs, including Samsung, to push Google Messages as the default
messaging app on their phones and tablets for consistency and improving
RCS.