[phyzome]

Hangouts is a conference call, so yes. :-)

Audio quality is variable. Sometimes there's serious lag. Screenshare often gets stuck. Sometimes Hangouts (well, now it's Meet) goes split-brain and some people join to find no one there, even though everyone else can see each other. Browser support is hideously narrow. Unmute sometimes doesn't work.

Oh, and the worst part: There are all these pesky humans involved!

Seriously, most of the stuff satirized in this art piece are human factors, or at least factors that have not particularly been changed by Hangouts and its ilk.

[spookthesunset]

Don't forget all the feedback loops and weird echos. I still don't know what causes all the echos.

Plus the second somebody says something important, the audio drops out or gets choppy.

Yeah.... we have a long ways to go for conference calls of any type....

[phyzome]

We get echoes when someone's mic is too close to their speakers, or doesn't have echo cancellation, etc. If you get echoes, there's someone who needs to mute. :-)