The Hangouts app won't work for me at all now, it just redirects to a screen saying that I must use Chat with a link to Google Play.
Of course, Google Chat is so much worse than Hangouts in every way.
You can't send multiple images at once, you can't directly share to a particular contact without first going into Chat app, and you can't swipe from image to image.
Literally nothing has been fixed in the year since I was forced to change over, and so many bad reviews on Play mention the same problems over and over and over again, with only canned worthless responses from the poor person assigned to reply.
