Google is really becoming the old Microsoft. In old Microsoft it was believed that competing teams for the same product would lead evolution for the best product. Google is now doing that.

Hangouts was cool much before iMessage and Zoom as mentioned in the article. I remember it being my main messaging platform. I remember being amazed with the video chat quality with multiple people. Google was at least 5-6 years ahead of the game. But then, it just fell more and more behind.

As far as Google products go, nothing is user-centric and everything gets clunkier. Only Google product that feels staying alive is Google maps and maybe Google search. Not that Bing is better but there are times, I Bing a search to find something I can't find in Google search. I feel like even Gmail is falling behind now; it stayed the same billion years. Simple filtering, organizing tools stayed the same.