100% agree but I'm tentatively hopeful that alternatives to Zoom have caught up. Zoom raised the bar and I have seen that other products have improved. Meet is decent right now and Jitsi (in my very limited testing so far) seem actually pretty great, possibly better than Zoom (they mix audio more smoothly when two people are talking over each other in a way that is less jarring, not sure but that's my current theory of why it "feels" better). Even historically awful alternatives like Webex really are honestly improved. Anyway, Zoom is getting outed as being a seriously a-hole company - there are definitely alternatives better than selling out just for convenience of not switching or even trying to find an alternative.
Yes. I find jitsi one-on-one audio call is better than zoom. Screenshare is equivalent to skype if you set the fps to 15. zoom is better for videos if it involve large number of users.