Honestly, it’s disappointing OP didn’t do this and show the XHTML that came through.

Not sure if joking, but presumably that then just wouldn't trigger this behaviour:

> If you happen to pronounce the name “Dave and Buster’s” as someone would normally pronounce it, almost like it’s a single word, the transcription engine on iOS will recognize¹ the brand name and correctly write it as “Dave & Buster’s” (with an ampersand).

I think the point of BlastDoor, as covered in the post, is that Apple is indeed working to prevent injection at the cost of silently failing & poorly handling legitimate messages.

> By being pedantic about the formatting, BlastDoor is protecting the recipient from an exploit that would abuse that type of issue.

So, not impossible, but less likely than you think