Google talk worked great until Google got bored and trashed it with Hangouts which worked less great until Google got bored and trashed it with Duo. The sad pa

Google talk worked great until Google got bored and trashed it with Hangouts which worked less great until Google got bored and trashed it with Duo. The sad part of it all ... Google Talk - by orders of magnitude their best chat offering was just xmpp/jabber the whole time.