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I can't help but wonder if the comments defending Google's strategy are from paid folks (shills, I suppose). The vast majority of comments are hating on the strategy and then there's a few who are lambasting everyone else and claiming that wanting a single chat app out of Google is paramount to "wanting an app which does everything." Perhaps their Google employees? This is high stakes so I'd expect some attempt to control the damage (I.e., "shape" the conversation).