The stuff that happened in the last post bothers me more than it should. The reason is poor timing. I figured all this out just before a brief bout of depression. (By brief, I mean less than a day.) For everyone who doesn't know (which is almost everyone), depression isn't "extra sad", it's "emotionless". (My own experiences with depression make Vulcans scary.) For about 5 hours, the only emotion I had was annoyance at Hangouts.
Over the course of those hours, the echo box of my otherwise empty emotional landscape intensified my feelings into blind rage. It's actually a bit scary. And this ball of hate is still with me. I've been working on it for months, but there's still a part of me that wants to work over the Hangouts team with a baseball bat. Yes, Google has screwed over it's customers, but that doesn't mean they deserve my hate.