Stop lowering my hand!

I was misled by the solved title in this, did I miss the solution somewhere? Am I blind? This setting is so disruptive.

Let's automate raising hands too with facial recognition detecting that they are thinking about something to say. Maybe we should also make people leave the meeting once they stop talking.

I cannot believe the complaints for this have been coming in here, it looks like, since June and nothing has been done about this! A raised hand, in my meeting, means you want a turn to speak for a couple of minutes. Meanwhile, you may comment on what someone else has said and then focus on the next speaker when they take their turn. I forget, every meeting that this “auto lowering” happens. I’ve only caught the countdown once or twice. This is a horrible “enhancement” and it obviously wasn’t thought through as the host still has the ability to manually lower hands. 
A little UX research/ user testing goes a long way! I’m a Sr UX Engineer and would volunteer my time to assist here. However, all the research has been done here and the information is sitting in, what  appears to be, a blackhole. This is quite sad for an application that means so much to my organization. We have meetings going on in multiple cities all over the world. Each location pays for its own zoom account. It would be a shame if we all jumped to another platform over something so easy to fix. I’m gonna try, though I can’t promise success, to speak directly to someone at Zoom about this.

Please Zoom, kill this "feature" auto hand lowering is the stupidest thing you have ever "added" it takes the speaker out of the nice top left corner and makes you chase after them in a multipage meeting, if not kill, then please give us the ability to kill it ourselves in a setting

Zoom, please fix this and allow it as a setting to change in the host settings. Thank you. 

Dozens, if not hundreds have made this request or been irritated by this "feature," and yet Zoom is ignoring us. Clearly, they don't plan to fix this.

I was in a meeting waiting for my turn, but made the mistake of unmuting to join in wishing someone a happy birthday. ZOOM PROMPTLY LOWERED MY HAND AND TOOK ME OUT OF THE QUEUE AND I LOST MY TURN.

ISSUE STILL NOT FIXED, STILL UNNECESSARY, STILL ANNOYING, STILL PISSED AT ZOOM FOR IGNORING OUR REQUESTS.

It sounds like the recent update to automatically lower raised hands when participants stop speaking is causing some confusion and inconvenience, particularly during your stand-ups and stand-downs. This feature, though intended to streamline meetings, seems to misinterpret brief interjections as a completion of a person's turn, leading to the unintended lowering of hands. It would be helpful to share this feedback directly with the platform's support team or through their feedback channels. In the meantime, you might consider using an alternate method to track turn-taking until this feature can be adjusted or toggled off to better suit your meeting structure. keep yourself update on zoom down / outge reports.

PEOPLE! Stop saying "Me too...blah blah blah." We're here looking for a solution, not a complainers club. Just "like" the OP and hope Zoom notices. 

This automation frequently lowers my hand when other people are talking and I lost my place in the queue.