> "XMPP still largely resembles a synchronous protocol with limited support for rich media, which can’t realistically be deployed on mobile devices. If XMPP is so extensible, why haven’t those extensions quickly brought it up to speed with the modern world?"

So, it's not such a gem?

Mandatory objection to this blog post: https://gultsch.de/objection.html

> if anything the velocity of the entire landscape seems to be steadily increasing.

It is, gods make it stop.

"Oh no complicated specification" do you think you're getting paid 100k/year because it's _easy_? Gods.