Matrix feels more like a replacement for IRC rather than instant messenger and its ways of communication with legacy networks seem rather awkward (although relu

Matrix feels more like a replacement for IRC rather than instant messenger and its ways of communication with legacy networks seem rather awkward (although reluctance of dev community around Matrix to implement transport-like services that store your credentials make a lot of sense; however I simply host my own transport just like I would have to when using Matrix, so I don't care). Also, modern XMPP is just as modern. With MAM, stream management, message carbons and some other smaller XEPs it just feels like a modern, mobile-friendly IM network.