Goodbye Together mode, hello simplified meeting layouts in Microsoft Teams

"modern Gallery will automatically scale the number and size of participant video tiles based on device capability"

What a big load of **bleep** that was! The update just hit us and it is TERRIBLE. With 3-4 users in the meeting, people STILL jump around the display. The preview of your own camera is gone and you're now shown in the main meeting video. On dual display meeting rooms, everyone is side by side, and if you have more than 4 users, good luck anyone extra is put in a tiny little bar on the side stacked vertically.

This has obviously not been tested AT ALL, or they've gotten feedback from creatures with smooth brains and have gone "well, they haven't given any negative feedback, lets push it globally!"

Also, what on earth is the reasoning below?!

While choice can be helpful, having too many layout options can also:

• Increase cognitive load for users - Really? Rarely anyone touches the setting, and even if they did, it doesn't increase cognitive load. Which mongoloid came up with this point? LMAO.
• Fragment the meeting experience across desktop, web, mobile, and Teams Rooms - Again, what? LMAO. People click join, and then get on with the meeting.
• Add implementation complexity across platforms - Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Not once has anyone with at least one braincell ever thought, "wow, i really wish layout options were even more straight forward or i wish they removed some options! Implementing Teams in my organisation is going to be so difficult! I should have not taken this corp job/IT job and should have become a farmer"

Once again MS makes changes no one asked for, everyone hates, and when called out "oh but we have the data that says this would be good and is requested"

Imagine changing something significant like this, making it the new default, and not giving users the option to turn it off.

Guess that's what happens when you run the company into the ground and lay off everyone 😂