Yes technically it could work, but I cannot ask the users to use SSH and configure VNC. The force of team viewer is that you download it, open it, and give number over the phone and it works.

Chrome remote desktop works pretty well

But for remote control, it stops after every few minutes, asking the "controlled" user to click on a button to continue. Not so practical in a few situations.

What do you mean? I've never had it do that.

It always happens for me when accessing a Linux machine remotely. I can't find a screenshot now, so the next time I do it, I'll take one. It seems to be a security measure, to prevent someone from sharing remote access and then forgetting about it afterwards, but it makes for terrible usability.

This is what I use. In Unix it just works (TM). If you have an ssh client in windows, it also works with Remote Desktop via ssh port forwarding. In lieu of a (configured) ssh client on Windows, you can send the other person a self-contained Go program to do the job.

you can also port forward from/to unix sockets