Honsestly reading this, it sounds like Google Talk was a wildly successful system that morphed into a backend for all kinds of weird things. And now we all use

Honsestly reading this, it sounds like Google Talk was a wildly successful system that morphed into a backend for all kinds of weird things. And now we all use Hangouts/Meets which seems to be a pretty successful part of the GSuite system. Google built a decent consumer chat that turned into an extension of Gmail. Hangouts was the rewrite that came in and took over Gmail chat and calls. Gmail, Docs, Meet eventually all became a successful enterprise product in the GSuite.