Zoom Slow to Open a Meeting Link or Start a new Meeting

I don't think the performance complaints are happening in isolation. Zoom has spent the last few years turning a straightforward video conferencing app into a full-blown "Workplace" suite with chat, whiteboards, file sharing, spreadsheets, surveys, AI features, and a growing list of productivity tools. In the process, the core product seems to be getting buried.

The most frustrating example was when Zoom moved essential meeting controls like Screen Share into secondary menus during its Workplace redesign. When one of the most-used features in a video meeting is harder to find than a whiteboard or workflow tool, the priorities seem backwards.

Many of us adopted Zoom because it was simple, fast, and reliable. You clicked a link and joined a meeting. Now the application feels increasingly bloated, with users forced to load and pay for a growing collection of Workplace features they never asked for and may never use.

If users are reporting slow startup times, delayed meeting launches, and general sluggishness, Zoom should seriously consider whether all this feature expansion is affecting the experience of people who just need a video conference platform. Not everyone wants Zoom to become a Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace competitor. A lot of us just want the fastest, most reliable meeting app possible.

Honestly, I'd love to see a "Zoom Classic" or "Zoom Lite" version that strips out all the Workplace clutter and focuses exclusively on meetings. Zoom became successful because of simplicity. The more it chases being an everything-app, the more it risks undermining the thing it was best at.