While it is of course perfectly fine to hate read receipts, I don’t see how this is a problem created by read receipts. Before you had little green/yellow/red icons next to your emails and text messages, you were just as sure that your message had been received after a while, simply because emails/letters/texts don’t get lost – unless there actually has been a problem (i.e. a spam folder or a broken connection while chatting or…).
I am personally much happier with a ‘read, but not replied to’ message than with a ‘possibly read, definitely not replied to, did they even get a chance to see that?’ message.
IOW, can someone rephrase the problem the author has and that is apparently created by read receipts such that I can understand it?
Author believes the assumed social imposition of reading a message without replying is worse than the benefit of understanding whether the receiving connection is open.
They also make a statement that iOS turns on read-receipts in iMessage by default now, and I'm not sure when that was started, since I had to turn mine on explicitly.
I am personally much happier with a ‘read, but not replied to’ message than with a ‘possibly read, definitely not replied to, did they even get a chance to see that?’ message.
IOW, can someone rephrase the problem the author has and that is apparently created by read receipts such that I can understand it?