Don't blame the replacement. We lost USENET to spam and IRC to lack of innovation and poor UX.
I stopped using both USENET and IRC long before any of these alternatives appeared.
I stopped using both USENET and IRC long before any of these alternatives appeared.
Yeah, Slack is down... but the gains made from using it outweigh the pain of having to deal with the failure. Improve the less proprietary options to where this isn't true anymore and people will stop using the more proprietary options.
There are always trade-offs, and expecting people not to make them is unrealistic.