i really don't see the hype about text when text has been very unpopular thanks to chatting apps.
Imagine you really truly need anon. Not like "Oh I'm scared of NSA" anon, I mean
really needing anon. If you have a smartphone you are already giving a lot of your info away so anon does have its limitation, with an anon sms transaction though you could use dumbphones. You could buy a 20 dollar burner at the corner store, send your sensitive transaction and throw away the phone if needed.
but there are already anonymous sim cards out there. anonymous texts is nothing new.