I support most of this, but the one thing I definitely want my phone to ring for is if I have a scheduled meeting on Zoom or some such. Missing those meetings

I support most of this, but the one thing I definitely want my phone to ring for is if I have a scheduled meeting on Zoom or some such. Missing those meetings or being more than a few minutes late always feels terrible, and it's so easy to do when I'm heads-down working on something. I would vehemently oppose a ban on public ringing for this reason--and also because it's needlessly authoritarian! If people want to ring at a similar volume to a person speaking or a baby crying, let them ring.