I mean, I don't really know how "consistently high call quality" is not the most important feature of any video chat application. My experience on hangouts has always been garbage. Delays, choppy sound, my machine starts going insane while rendering other people's live video. It may just work in the sense that you can immediately use it, but if even 20% of the time you use it the call quality sucks, then it's a crap product IMO.
> It may just work in the sense that you can immediately use it, but if even 20% of the time you use it the call quality sucks, then it's a crap product IMO.
"it just works" doesn't mean "its a superior product". I use Zoom over hangouts whenever I'm on a call with more than ~3 people, but automatic gcal integration + being fully functional from a browser means that hangouts makes more sense sometimes.
(I also don't have nearly the amount of issues you do with hangouts. The biggest problem for me is how much worse they handle crosstalk, which isn't an issue when there are only a couple of people on a call.
