That's only true if you don't have a camera cover (or anything on your desk you can use as cover). Pretty quickly someone is going to go "I'm sick I look awful,

That's only true if you don't have a camera cover (or anything on your desk you can use as cover). Pretty quickly someone is going to go "I'm sick I look awful, I'm keeping my camera cover on" and that's just like Zoom. Though I agree there's a stronger incentive to have camera on (is that a good thing? Does that help creating "a sense of privacy"?)