agree and the issues with IRC are so much more basic. there isn't even a built in history. i could miss DMs directly addressed to me or an important conversation just by being offline and have no way of even knowing. a technical user could set up a bouncer, but just using discord is much easier. for any of the 95% of general non-technical communities discord hosts, IRC is a complete non-starter.
You seem to complain mostly about the bouncer. There are services that will "just work" for you, like IRCCloud or chat.sr.ht (and certainly others). You just will just have history without knowing about what a bouncer is.
