In my experience half the reason people like Slack is for the ecosystem. We tried getting our company to adopt Google Chat but everyone wanted Slack because of

In my experience half the reason people like Slack is for the ecosystem. We tried getting our company to adopt Google Chat but everyone wanted Slack because of integrations and apps (and they were just more familiar with it from using it at previous companies). I reluctantly let the company switch to Slack. But 100% driven by employee demand/satisfaction. If as an IT person I recommend anything other than Slack, it will immediately get shot down if I do a poll of employees. Employees like slack for whatever bizarre reasons, even when comparing it to basically identical chat apps. It’s almost like making a Mac person switch to Windows (or vice versa). People have a strange emotional connection with Slack making it hard to use anything else.