Am I the only one that longs for what used to be the awesomeness that is gchat? Gchat with what hangouts has for calls/voice/video would've basically been the

Am I the only one that longs for what used to be the awesomeness that is gchat? Gchat with what hangouts has for calls/voice/video would've basically been the win. Instead it constantly feels like this buggy/gimped browser app that maybe/maybe doesn't work.