Yes, that brief XMPP interop era was a Golden Age that wasn't appreciated enough when it happened and is mostly something to mourn today that we collectively le

Yes, that brief XMPP interop era was a Golden Age that wasn't appreciated enough when it happened and is mostly something to mourn today that we collectively let it slip through our grasps. Issues with XMPP support were big reasons I stopped using Google's messaging apps altogether. (It didn't help that at the time I was using GSuite as primary XMPP, because I wanted my primary Jabber ID on a domain I controlled, and communicating with Gmail primary users I recall seemed through a weird internal federation boundary that had its own strange federation issues even before Google started shutting down outside federation.)