If nothing else, it's impressive that they've actually managed to migrate those Google Talk users over the years (myself included in that, albeit less than I used to). They probably did so extremely begrudgingly, but the path went something like:
Google Talk -> Hangouts -> Google Chat
People I added years ago are still reachable in Chat, which I guess is nice (in spite of everything else).
Google Talk -> Hangouts -> Google Chat
People I added years ago are still reachable in Chat, which I guess is nice (in spite of everything else).