The weird thing is that even with Cisco $$$ Webex still isn't as good as Zoom at streaming. I wanted to watch a Youtube stream simultaneously with friends and tried it out with Webex, Hangouts, and Zoom. Hangouts was unwatchable, maybe 1-2 frames/second, but hey, it's a "free" product. Webex made it possible to see what was going on, but honestly it was pretty crappy. Zoom looked more or less like the original stream. Pretty amazing for a product that until last year was mainly known security holes.

I've been using Zoom via work for over 4 years now. It has been a stable and very good video conferencing solution for all that time. It is the first time I've honestly dealt with video conferencing software that "just works", which is a huge deal. I've never sat in meetings with people dithering about trying to get it to do what they needed.

Have you tried using Google Meet instead of Hangouts? I'm just curious if it's noticeably different.

I think Meet is just a rebranding of Hangouts. Meet just sounds better for enterprise than Hangouts.