We introduced message lists in order to cope with large amount of returned messages. We should be consistent in its usage. The number of displayed messages can be as large as the number of selected messages, so both functions should behave the same. The only other place where we still return messages as plain arrays is in the compose API, when returning the saved/send messages, which is limited to only a few messages. It is acceptable to keep returning these in an array.
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We introduced message lists in order to cope with large amount of returned messages. We should be consistent in its usage. The number of displayed messages can be as large as the number of selected messages, so both functions should behave the same.