zoom is demonstrating itself as an antisocial company that should be boycotted, but dealing with them is required, until the government drops them, and i expect they will. zoom is going out of it's way to generate unnecessary, recurring costs. somebody else is going to undercut them. zoom's days are numbered.
it would be nice to eventually be able to buy something like a vp59 without being certain that it's going to be phased out in a few months, but that's not reality right now.
i'm looking at a few usb phones, but the only things you can find nowadays are engineered for microsoft. really, the phone needs to launch as a usb sound card, in the zoom context. that's what zoom should load it as. it should act as a usb phone for zoiper or softsip, but it's just a phone shaped sound card with a few specific buttons, like mute, for zoom. really.
after locking myself in all week, i have not had a headache this weekend for the first time in a while. the acne is also clearing up. it's clear what the truth is.