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I wish, but teams is bad not because Microsoft isn't capable of fixing it.

It is bad because regardless of how infuriating and frustrating the user experience is, people are still gonna be forced to use it under the massive pressure of Microsofts weight.

I neither expect it nor hope so. I still remember when they bought Skype. Said they'd keep the Linux support to stem community worries then dropped it like a brick about a year after.

There was a project to completely rewrite Teams UI. no idea where is that.

Teams is written in Angularjs aka Angular 1 [0]

They rewrote parts of it to React when they made the weird half client for Windows 11. Not sure why those two clients haven't merged yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27633756

That might explain why its so damn slow for such basic text things... not even going into bugs

Angularjs? I'm impressed. I've got to maintain (infrequently) a Django monstrosity with a (small) Angularjs front-end, and I've always had a much harder time fixing Angularjs than e.g. Vue, even though there is relatively little Angular code. They must have designed it properly from the start.

The model of teams is fundamentally different than Slack, "fixing" it to compete directly would be a big product shift.