Third person singular/past and plural form of 'text'

I have noticed that here in the UK, some people, myself included, say the following:

I text
He texts
I/He texted
Texts (plural)

Yet I have heard a lot of people say:

I text
He textes
I/He text (past)
Textes (plural)

I wonder why two different sets of morphology have come about, especially regarding the third person/plural addition of 'es' (at least in terms of pronunciation), which doesn't follow the normal pattern in English at all. I mean, no one would refer to multiple texts in a book as 'textes'.

Also, has the same thing happened in the US and other English speaking countries?

'xts' is hard to pronounce.

"Text" sounds like a past tense. So it feels natural to say "I text you yesterday".

Having "text" as past tense sounds off for one reason or another. Though not completely wrong it feels more at home, that is for me, to say "texted".

Here in Canada, I've heard both text and texted for the past tense, it's probably 50/50. I've never heard textes for the third person singular, only texts. I actually find textes harder to say!