Yeah downloading an app for video calls feels very skype. And it's a non-starter for me personally given Zoom's history of lying about privacy and encryption.
That's fair. Everyone comes to these sorts of positions with a stack of values[1]. How that stack is ordered often determines one's choices.
One of the interesting things for me from a technological perspective is whether or not we're converging on what the ideal set of features for a "video phone" would be. If there was a broad enough consensus on the core feature set I would hope an 'appliance' version would be available which would eliminate needing to use a general purpose processor (and all the risks that entails) for this sort of meeting.
[1] From your response I infer that you value "no native code" and "sandboxed javascript" highly which guides you to the choice to use Meet, vs someone who might stack "User Experience" more highly than those two and end up at a different choice.
