@colo_lee @evan Can you explain what "stepping up" would have been, exactly, and who exactly are the people who didn't do it?
What solid evidence do we have that "not stepping up" caused Google and FB to silently and gradually stop supporting XMPP, except a single unsupported and unspecific statement by a Google spokesperson vaguely blaming Spam, with no details or numbers?
If Google had broken email for the same reason, would you have agreed?