I "upgraded" the talk app on my phone to hangout. It was a terrible decision, it's destroyed the primary use of my phone (using gchat while at work, on the go,

I "upgraded" the talk app on my phone to hangout. It was a terrible decision, it's destroyed the primary use of my phone (using gchat while at work, on the go, etc). It mixed my gchat and phone contacts, so now the list of contacts is a giant unusable mess. I can't see who of my friends are online. They moved the send button from being at the bottom-right of the virtual keyboard to above the keyboard next to the input text area which is awkward. I don't use google+ and yet multiple friends were "blocked in google+" and I had to unblock them. GChat / google talk have been the primary way I've kept in touch with friends and family for years. The android talk app was perfect - intuitive, fast, simple. It provided exactly what I needed - who is online, away, busy, offline and a fast simple way to chat with them. If this is the future for gchat, I'm going to have to try to convince friends and family to switch back to AIM or MSN Messenger.