I want to just be able to hit my self-view and have it have a big icon on it or something so the person currently speaking (and everyone else) can see that I want to say something. Maybe sort these in chronological order so the speaker can see who wanted to talk first?).
In theory you could do this with a good chat, but for some reason the chat in Zoom and the others is kind of an afterthought and nobody uses it.
One of the reasons I prefer text based chat is multiple people can talk at the same time without needing to deal with interrupting audio. If you can type well, the bandwidth is higher for group communication (and you get a log).
At least with video you can kind of tell when someone is waiting to speak by seeing their expression. Audio only is worse (but maybe wouldn't be, if you had good intent-to-speak tools built into the app?)