Gosh, that brings back memories!
I remember having so much fun coding my own trivia bots in mIRC Scripting Language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC_scripting_language) over 20 years ago.
But, perhaps, we're just not young anymore.
That, but also Discord is basically what people use on computers for communication today, and Discord also has bots.
Of course, you cannot just willy-nilly write your own client for a Discord bot without dealing with tons of hassle, compared to how easy it is to write something that uses the IRC protocol, so not sure it's the same "instant gratification".