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I'm not a daily driver, but my understanding is that, as you implied, group texts require MMS support, which has been a sticking point for the PinePhone. However, the latest blog post says that Plasma Mobile now supports MMS. The Github page for Majaro phosh also mentions MMS support starting with beta release 18.
As for writing apps, I've been enjoying Rust + Relm4 (https://github.com/AaronErhardt/relm4), but it might be easier to start off with Python or Vala and GTK or similar. A lot of gnome apps are Python. This looks like a good way to get started: https://www.gtk.org/docs/language-bindings/python/