[Anticlockwise]

Agreed. I've used a tool like this (sococo) once that I liked for a while. It had the ability to go into an office and close the door. So you'd see the avatar as not available and would have to "knock". That was better, but really only good when we were a small team. Also it's super hard to provide zoom-quality voice and video, and they couldn't, so it was glitchy and we eventually stopped. But it was nice because if you were taking a break you could drop into a "public" room and anyone else taking a break at the same time would be able to drop by and say hi. And as a manager, sometimes I would catch folks having chats and ask if I could join and it would be OK.

This one seems entirely worse than sococo. It drops the idea of physical space and you're just always on with everyone. Ugh.