Yeah I get google meet through my work and like that way better (it's gsuite google hangouts, like hangouts but slightly more sophisticated — in particular it has really good auto generated closed captioning which is really helpful since I have a. audio processing disorder)

I'll say "zoom" for the normies but then just send them a meet link when it's time to get going

If you learned2code like I did you could also setup your own zoom or hangouts style webapp pretty easily, I spent some time playing around with the webrtc protocol awhile back and got something functional after a couple days