Yep, why would they drop it? It’s especially egregious as Apple disregards its own human interface guidelines to make green bubbles excessively low-contrast. Very intentional.
I bought the very first iPhone the day after its release. Long before iMessage was introduced, it only supported SMS at the time. People forget, but those bubbles, the original SMS ones, were green. Blue bubbles showed up only when iMessage debuted three years later.
