[pfooti]

The unclear thing here is: what is going to happen to hangouts on personal accounts? I use google hangouts on my gmail account for group hangouts all the time (role-playing game group that's geographically distributed, for example). I mean, I'll use hangouts meet or whatever instead of vidchat hangouts, but only if it exists.

[syntheticnature]

I agree, since I engage in a bit of this myself, though admittedly the largest such chat got moved over to Slack a while ago due to the (at the time) lack of any easy way to remove someone from a group hangout.