https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/16/messengrrrr/

“The app became too cluttered” Facebook’s head of Messenger David Marcus announced today in a post of plans for 2018 including “massively simplifying and streamlining Messenger this year.” Between Messenger Day/Stories, its Snapchatty augmented reality camera, a bot Discover section, games, and more, Facebook had to build artificial intelligence “M Suggestions” just to remind people all the features it has crammed in the app.

Marcus is right — Messenger has strayed from its value of being an easy way to chat with people across devices without their phone numbers. So in a wise move similar to Facebook’s recent retreat from news and public content with its big algorithm overhaul, Messenger plans to consolidate around its core. “Over the last two years, we built a lot of capabilities to find the features that continue to set us apart. A lot of them have found their product market fit; some haven’t” he admits.