Discord has nearly finished killing IRC, so it must be time to enshittify!
Until Discord makes it impossible to run an IRC server or client I dont see IRC going anywhere.
You, Me, and the 12 other IRC users remaining aren't going anywhere.
But denying that Discord has effectively killed IRC is just self-delusion in my opinion.
Yeah, protocols are unkillable, but the interest in IRC was definitely hurt by Discord. Had they started putting ads in the client from the start, I doubt so many groups would have migrated to it.