I have one friend who uses Google Chat and it's always a bit of a shuffle to figure out where I have to message him back on. It's not in gmail's android apl for me anymore although it used to be (Meet is there). Meet is also a separate app in addition to being in the gmail app. Chat is the app on Android but I think I might actually access chat through Gmail on desktop.

haha here comes the anxiety

i think this one will stick around longer though, i noticed that they have a separate app Google Chat, but now the Gmail app have it baked in next to the inbox.

pretty sure there's a massive use case too, whenever I do interviews a decent fraction of companies insist for google meet instead of zoom etc

- https://killedbygoogle.com/

- https://gcemetery.co/

- https://killedby.tech/google/

Prob cuz they're cheap and it comes with Workspace.

The Gmail chat inside Gmail isn't new, BTW. It's been there for like a decade or longer, but it keeps changing and losing compatibility with other services. I wouldn't rely on it for anything long term.