Shoutbox

You also forgot to point out that this is a list of the things that have been asked of the messenger team to do, not what they are putting into an upcoming release.  It would be nice to think they would do all of this and to a high level, but as we have seen it does take a while for them to add features and they aren't always the best they can be (contact names and chat-logging are two that I can think of that are/have been better in plus).

As Ezra said (and has been talked about previously) the whole idea of plus! is to extend upon MSN/WLM's features for the people that use the add-on, if however they are implemented I think Patchou will feel as though he contributed.  It is a good thing that you can go anywhere and not have to install plus! to get all the features you want, unfortunately atm that is not the reality (and I doubt that ever will be with new ideas coming always being formulated).