Agreed on both points. XMPP is nowadays so much different than decades ago. I've migrated my family to Conversations and they're super happy with it. Google's

Agreed on both points. XMPP is nowadays so much different than decades ago. I've migrated my family to Conversations and they're super happy with it. Google's constant messanger churn tires regular users that just want to communicate instead of taking part in Google's internal political/promotion experiments.