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That's also been my experience. Teams is absolutely awful. It looks like it's a sharepoint messaging client (you can store files in it, make group pages), which is.. insane.

I dread seeing a Teams meeting put together, because almost always, at least 1/2 of the people on it will struggle with sound, video, random crashes, and inability to share.

Zoom, for the same people, on the same equipment, doesn't have any issues. It's night and day.

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Teams tries to be Slack, Zoom and more and it's been terribly confusing and bad a few times I had to use it.

However when people in suits take decisions then "why pay for N products instead of one?" becomes compelling for many. I saw a tweet last week saying Teams have 10x user count of Slack apparently. I guess some upselling from MS who already has Office does wonders.

I didn't use Teams more than 1h at once so maybe long term it's not that bad when you learn to use it? But Zoom and Slack seem aay better products for me.

I work at a Teams co with about 60k people and vid/chat/share/etc works without issue. Issues, in my group, are extremely rare.

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