No. Like I mentioned elsewhere here, almost everyone I know hates it and I myself hate it as well, while I am a social monster (put me somewhere and i'm chatting to everyone in no time flat).

I wouldn't say I hate it, but I would say I find it tiring.

One of the great things about regular phone calls is you can multitask. Walk around the house and straighten up papers, load some dirty dishes in the dishwasher, etc. With video, it feels more like a performance.

I don't really get the point of keeping video open. I'm always either looking at emails, a shared desktop, an issue tracker, or some kind of document while we are on calls. Seeing people sip coffee and pick their nose doesn't really add anything except bandwidth.

If someone is presenting it's useful to be able to gauge how well it's going, whether people are paying attention, if they're bored, etc..

Then let that be a presenter's view. Don't make everyone suffer through it. When I'm in a room with people in a meeting, I'm focused on the presenter. I'm not looking at everyone in the room at the same time.

In Teams at least, you can disable all incoming video.