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I love meet but I have to reluctantly admit that zoom behaves better when you have a very low and/or irregular bandwidth. It reacts very well to temporary packet losses, by replaying the audio a little faster until it catches up with realtime, and video syncs up with audio quite well.

No idea about Zoom scaling but I can say with confidence that Meet works perfectly fine with >200 these days. (I work at Google, use Meet 8+h per day in meetings small and large.)

We use Meet for most purposes because it's "free" given that we use Google Workplace for other things. Just use Bluejeans these days for the largest meetings.

Which is why it's good when there's a big outage and you need a ton of engineers in a call to debug it - Zoom is the only one I've seen that doesn't fall over.