[timothya]

Yeah, and please also don't send me any messages where you chose autocompletions for the words, or messages where your phone autocorrected the spelling of. Heck, don't even send messages where you pressed the keyboard buttons to spell out the words, it's far to impersonal and dehumanizing to be limited to the options your phone presents; people should communicate like they were meant to: by talking to each other face-to-face.

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With Smart Replies (as with other communication-helping technology), meaning comes from how and when you choose to use them, and there's no reason you shouldn't choose to use them when it communicates what you were intending. If I was going to say "Yes!" and that's a Smart Reply option, why shouldn't I save the time and choose it? It was still my action that sent that message, still my choice to send it, still the meaning that I wanted to communicate. Smart Replies save time for the simple stuff, so you can better spend your time on other messages that you might write manually.