How else would you recommend Apple indicate your message doesn't have end-to-end security? That's what the colors are actually about, BTW.

Kids didn't bully kids due to end to end security...

> That's what the colors are actually about, BTW.

No, the green bubbles are intentionally made hard to read with low contrast text, if it was just to show end to end security they could have made the bubbles look pleasing rather than irritating.

They don't look "irritating" to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, that is what the colors are indicating. Unless I'm missing something, the white text appears to be the same white in both cases, the text font appears to be the same, and the color saturation and brightness appear to be the same. So I'm not seeing how this was an attempt to make the texts "intentionally" hard to read. If you wanted to make it hard to read, you would have used yellow, not green.

Have little padlock sybols on the encrypted message, like literally everyone else does?

I assure you that the number of people that interpret those colors as encryption indicators is vanishingly small. To 99.9% of iPhone users it is a stand-in for "are these people in my cult or not?"

Like I asked the other guy, what could or should have they done?

Like I keep telling you, have little padlock symbols on the encrypted messages :)