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Since time immemorial we have been coming up with euphemisms for “I need to shit”.

I actually find this one minimally objectionable. I am a meat robot and I must attend to biological necessities. This is a convenient abstraction for my working relationships.

Yeah, different mindset I guess.

Taking a shit is a pleasure, the meeting is the inconvenience.

Nah, it's a gaming term that goes back to at least 2006 (first I'd seen it). When you're grinding 10 hours on some new raid in WoW it was common to say "brb bio" or "Everyone take a 5 min bio break" etc.

We said it in FFXI a few years before that. I thought maybe it was a pun since the game has a spell called Bio and people would highlight the word using the auto-translate function, but I just checked and this says the term dates back to the mid-90s:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bio-break-meaning-a...

Kind of? It is an unfortunate biological reality that we need to eat, sleep, pee, etc. I mean, we literally say "Excuse me" all the time as a matter of social etiquette; this is no different.