XMPP hasn't really played out to its promises. Pity, it's such a great set of technology. There's something to learn from this - there's likely a "right amount

XMPP hasn't really played out to its promises. Pity, it's such a great set of technology. There's something to learn from this - there's likely a "right amount" of anarchy, some goldilock zone where people can still be creative and unburdened but not so much that things become fractured, fragmented, and incoherent.