That Mozilla, when seeing that their IRC network was stagnating and then observed the wider landscape of chat solutions, chose to shut it down and switch to Slack should have been such a bigger point for people to notice. A nonprofit (not true, by the way) with a semi-stable money cache from legalized bribes chooses not to beef up their network or explore IRCv3 or XMPP, no. Just join the latest in venture capital bandwagons.