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By breaking something fundamental about how XMPP chat works? Personally, I vote "no".

I for one vote "yes". I was starting to receive lots of spam requests from within google talk. It was really annoying. Whatever they did it stopped and I'm glad for it.

Great, you lose one minor annoyance, and the rest of us deal with the fallout of a broken Internet. Sounds like a great tradeoff to me.

What is it with modern times, where people are willing to sacrifice fundamental things, like applications that adhere to standard protocols, to gain some minute level of relief from something that's just "annoying"?

That is the whole reason people use google, it's convenient.

They're not stopping anyone running a personal ejabberd server.

They are effectively stopping people from running personal ejabberd servers. What the hell is the point of running your own jabber server if your users can't talk to users on the largest jabber network on the planet?

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