This was a surprisingly hostile response overall. GP says that faces are a distraction, and you start calling them names. > Newsflash, mimics and gestures exis

This was a surprisingly hostile response overall. GP says that faces are a distraction, and you start calling them names. > Newsflash, mimics and gestures exist for a biological reason and are an essential part in communication. Blind people seem to do pretty well in both understanding and being understood. So I would argue that 'essential' could be replaced with 'helpful' for person-to-person interactions. On a personal note: having a conversation with a constant 150-500s lag makes video distinctly unhelpful to my brain - in fact, it is extremely destructive to my ability to focus on the conversation at hand. And I can assure you I'm a human with emotions, [hopefully] not a 'shitty dev', and am neither a meat robot nor a disconnected techy.