I find it surprising that everyone apparently thinks that it goes without saying that Slack's interface is superior to other choices. It is full of visual nois

I find it surprising that everyone apparently thinks that it goes without saying that Slack's interface is superior to other choices. It is full of visual noise. You end up in desparate need of splitting most types of information streams in separate channels because of it, and then before you know it, you're channel-hopping all day long. For core functionality - chatting - I've found that most IRC clients I've used are superior to it. Hell, even Facebook's chat is superior. It'd take fully redesigned fully native client idiomatic to every platform abounding with customization options to make me take a stroll through that garden. Not web client and especially not some Electron (is it?) desktop client that looks more like afterthought than carefully crafted experience.