I pretty much never sent an MMS before or since, and it had email which was better and cheaper. No copy/paste was more annoying, but a fair comparison is with other phones of the era, and my previous phone (some top-end but dumb Sony Ericsson) didn't either.

If you're using a modern iPhone and have ever sent a text to more than one recipient, I think you've probably sent an MMS at some point.

Group SMS != MMS.