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The "centralized" part is not a problem with their protocol and it's well explained.
The 3rd-party clients thing ... I agree with, but one can find justifications for that too. They probably don't want people to use it for filesharing with uuencode and base64. Or even for VPNs, like they did with Tox when it seemed to have a future.
The phone number thing sucks, but there's a need to defend against bot registrations somehow.
The desktop app sucks absolutely and conclusively. If there were a library one can use to make a Pidgin plugin, it would be a godly gift.