I think this comes from people attempting to roll their own low-level XMPP clients top of generic XML libraries, which is a recipe for having a bad time. Also,

I think this comes from people attempting to roll their own low-level XMPP clients top of generic XML libraries, which is a recipe for having a bad time. Also, people who connect Pidgin to their Gmail and think that is the pinnacle of XMPP experience, but in fact both are severely outdated.