EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:
well, it's not just Teams and not just MS. Have you worked with Zoom lately? I do agree that Teams occupies that very special dark space in my heart right next to hate and loathing.
Zoom works for video. I test it a few times a week for a few hours with a few contacts each time.
And a few beer.
It's a vPub most of the time with some tech thrown in.
I hate to say it, but FB Messenger is reliable for me too : starts well, sounds good, video's clean, ends cleanly . I need to remind mom how to start that call when it's with her on her old portal unit, but yeah. Cambridge is the worst thing to happen to good products like M and Portal.