[gpvos]

The mechanism is not the problem, it's that it turns on the mic by default. Most Zoom users are not in the luxury position of being in a location with a presentation room where they might need to present something, so for most people this is just an unnecessary feature and a possible nuisance. So this setting should by default be turned off (it can still work when the mic is turned on already).

[olliej]

I was responding to the comment calling it a hack :)

Zoom deciding to use the mic while not in use is clearly a terrible bit of behavior :)