Product design question

How would you improve Facebook Messenger?

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What this question tests

Product improvement sense for a mature, high-usage communication product.

Clarify pain points: notification overload, difficulty finding important messages in group chats, and unclear response expectations.
Pick a segment, e.g. users managing many overlapping group chats.
Propose smarter notification prioritization, a 'needs response' inbox view, and better message organization.
Prioritize the needs-response view first, since message overload is the top daily friction.
Define success as reduced average time-to-reply for important messages.
Note how prioritization avoids misclassifying an important message.

Names a specific, common pain point, message overload across group chats, instead of vague 'make it better'.
Proposes a concrete organizational feature, a needs-response view, distinct from just more notifications.
Distinguishes urgency-based prioritization from chronological ordering as the key improvement.
Picks a friction-reduction metric, time-to-reply, over raw message volume.

Proposing more notifications when the real problem is already notification overload.
Redesigning the whole app instead of targeting the highest-friction pain point.

How would you avoid the needs-response feature adding more clutter itself?
How would you personalize prioritization without misclassifying an important message?