This reasoning is essentially "it's easier for us". I have to use slack for work and it is extraordinarily frustrating to have to use such a ridiculously slow a

This reasoning is essentially "it's easier for us". I have to use slack for work and it is extraordinarily frustrating to have to use such a ridiculously slow and resource intensive application for sending text messages in 2016. Coupled with the non-native UI (can I right click on that message? Oh no - it's a web page, let's find the cog to click on). Saying that it allows the UI to be the same on every platform to me means that it is not good on any platform. I would take IRC over slack any day at this point.