I've been on Android for more than a decade, and I still don't know what I'm "supposed" to be using. I have switched out that stuff for third party apps a few years back. Was a disaster zone, I'm sure it still is.
I don't even know what they call that chat-inside-gmail these days. Talk? Chat? I remember it getting merged with Hangouts eventually and then un-merged. Or was that Voice?
I was on Voice too as GrandCentral back before Google bought them. The mp3 ringback functionality which was the first feature lost in the purchase.
Ended up reminiscing a bit there but its been a crazy ride in the Google sphere.
You've been on Android for decade, keep using what you've been using and you like. When did people become too dumb to choose a thing they like and started demanding socialism?
Tf is this supposed to mean in this context?
In particular "something I have no need for but lots of other people do but I don't care about them"
Not to mention fairly nice features like SMS and Hangouts integration that were ripped out into separate apps again.
It has been a confusing mess.