Here's the fun part: eventually slack's going to have the same problems it complains about these protocols having. Some new platform can't run the same client

Here's the fun part: eventually slack's going to have the same problems it complains about these protocols having. Some new platform can't run the same client as usual, so they write a new one that has a slightly different feature set. And/or some clients can't be upgraded. "All of this has happened before and will happen again." I'm completely unsurprised. The integrations were there to reduce customer risk in choosing slack. Now that slack is big enough, they don't need to do that anymore. Those integrations can only let 3rd parties into the party that slack wants all for themselves. Shit like this is why IRC is still so popular.