The top end afaik is the Cisco telepresence gear used in eg the White House. There’s a spectrum in between, but $280 is definitely near the lower end. Maybe portal is really good, though?

But honestly, it could be the best teleconferencing gear, I’d never put a camera from FB in my home.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a Portal?

The average dev at Facebook is paid like $150k. If they implement this then some engineers will lose $50k per year.

$179. Lol

If Facebook gave each dev a $15,000 computer setup then most will still be royally fucked by this policy.

At $179 that's a cheap product.