google force-feeding me its zoom-killer attempt means i cant easily get to gchat, the product on this sidebar i actually want to use

i wish all the bigcos (Goog, FB, MSFT) wouldn't use their existing enormous install base of software to push me into other things i didnt ask for

(recall Google+ and that org's colonization of literally every other popular google property — something bad for users and grumbled about by other google divisions internally

that did not work out well