Update: seems fixed. Message sent ok.
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I just tried to reply to a message from a user which is in a thread that has already had several successful messages and replies.
I got an error message which does not make sense in a DM tool:
"The receiver field is required."
See the top of this screenshot:

Chrome
102.0.0.0
AndroidOS
10