[aledue]

To add to what others said, another crap piece of Teams' UI is the file manager: it plays very badly with the browser (can't middle click a file to open it in another browser, pressing the back button is broken) and it has a shitty pdf viewer (why the hell does it need an integrated viewer anyway?).

My university pays for Google Meet too, and has a server running Moodle, so I have no idea why professors prefer Teams over Meet+Moodle. And don't get me started on Google Classroom...

[Spooky23]

Teams is a shim on top on Outlook Groups and SharePoint. It’s kind of a brilliant approach, as it allowed them to ship without needing to reinvent the security model, ediscovery, etc.

The downside is that it is clunky. But even then, it’s exponentially better than native SharePoint, WebEx, etc.

Over time, I’m sure they’ll do what they did with “OneDrive for Business” and build services over time to replace or augment that underlying stuff. OneDrive was a turd a 6–8 years ago but got much better about 2 years ago and seems to get incrementally better.