[lxgr]

Exactly. Turns out people like

- Having chat and calls in one app

- Being able to make other people's devices ring if required (and not having to send a meeting invite code in a completely different app and coordinate with the other party to join)

- Being able to log in using their Google account rather than doing some weird dance involving their phone number

- Using more than one device simply by logging in using their account, rather than "linking an additional device to their phone" (which of course has to be the center of it all)

Seems like the same thing is happening to Pay/Wallet too. It was always completely beyond me how they would rip out "Login with Google" from their own products and replace it with a phone-number-based single-device model.