I wish we could just hurry up and come to the ultimate conclusion that we always had everything we needed with IRC. I can't understand why we're still in the ju

I wish we could just hurry up and come to the ultimate conclusion that we always had everything we needed with IRC. I can't understand why we're still in the jungle of high level applications replicating a low level protocol. I get that IRC never had a particular client that galvanized the protocol as much as the many iterations of proprietary real time chat that has came and went over the past 10 years, but honestly the problem isn't the protocol, the problem is that no one was making clients meant for the mainstream.