I'm a Gboard convert.
You can turn that in in settings.+1 for Gboard. has all the features that I want and need. one quibble is that I wish it had boarders between the keys.
Gboard all the things....
...except GIFS. Swiftkey has GIFS in messages (if that's anyone's "thing") and Gboard does not. I personally like Gboard better, but they are very close. Both are certainly better than stock keyboard.
Gboard absolutely has GIFs, Samsung stock messenger app just doesn't support them when using Gboard.
I didn't know that because I am using the stock message app. Thanks.