Alerternative Hosts - from outside organizations?

I don't feel that this question is solved.  I don't see why we cannot have folks from other orgs co-host WITHOUT having to have the event creator start the meeting.  Sometimes we cannot make a meeting.

Surely, Zoom should work on this drawback. I don't think one can appoint co-hosts anyhow. This feature, where a co-host is not a registered user, is very important in the context where you delegate the chairing and administration of a meeting to someone. Please fix this!

There needs to be a workaround for this. I help to schedule meetings across nine different businesses, I cannot attend every meeting. I need to be able to make someone who is external a co-host.

I am so surprised this is still an issue. I want to co-host with another school and the fact I cannot have someone outside the organization a co-host is shocking and disappointing. 

This is NOT solved! I suspect it would easily be solved but Zoom care more about maintaining their market segmentation than they do about the actual experience of their paying subscribers. We have found that we are able to set this up with external users for Microsoft Teams, so it's another reason for us to switch away from Zoom.

This continues to be such a problem. It should not be that hard to collaborate across organizations and agencies to assign alternative hosts. Even if you all wanted to confine alternative hosts to users with paid accounts, fine. But there's gotta be a solution.