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So long as you only need text and an occasional file transfer I think the situation is bretty fine. The last time I tried Dino and Gajim could do the job. Though I didn't like Dino much because it advertises itself as "modern", while heavily relying on libadwaita and vala. I just can't trust anything that is so close to the "modern" GNOME community. I prefer to stay away from them. Though I just checked gajim and it depends on libadwaita as well, kek. IIRC that wasn't always the case?
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/gajim
https://packages.debian.org/sid/gajim
So this libadwaita cancer is a new thing. Sad, berry sad. Still, I guess you could just use an older version instead. I don't know anything about other XMPP clients, but probably they'll support at least text.