Google Hangouts is a terrible evolution of what used to be a nice, clean and standards-based service. The reason I stopped using and advocating Gtalk was Hangou

Google Hangouts is a terrible evolution of what used to be a nice, clean and standards-based service. The reason I stopped using and advocating Gtalk was Hangouts. Unfortunately, most of Google's products are taking the hangouts route: bloated, messy UI, no clear conceptual model and shiny over functional. I don't get it, but I wont put up with it either. I've migrated most my data and services from Google to other places.