Like 90% of users, I care about voice chatting with my friends, having persistent chat sessions, being able to share videos and links, being able to share files, being able to share screens, and stream to my friends.

Yes. ALL of these features are important. Not "oh but you can chat using this app, and share files with this app, and stream with this other app". No. All those features listed. In a single app.

Until an alternative pops up that offers all of that, I refuse to accept the other "alternatives" listed as viable. They are not. There is a reason people moved from things like mumble and teamspeak to discord. Because discord offered more services at a higher level of convenience. I despise what discord is doing, but pretending like having to use multiple different programs to try and poorly accomplish what discord offers on its own would somehow be appealing to the majority of users is insane.

"Oh but these are decentraliz-" I. Do. Not. Give. A. Shit. Nor do the vast majority of discord users. Decentralization is fine and good, but it is so far down the list of priorities that it's worthless to talk about.