New Raised Hands "Enhancements"

There's a few other posts about this, but surprisingly no way to toggle it off at the moment. 

I agree, I somehow got over on the developer side and saw that there was a suggestion to be able to click "ok" or "do not show again" but it doesn't seem that it's an option yet. It's SO frustrating. I teach 4th grade and it covers kids' faces, and when a new kid raises their hand, it pops up again. I'm constantly clicking on the stupid "x." 

It has an annoying side effect here as well. In the Japanese company we often have

public readings, so you pick the next person to read from those with lowered hands, read your own paragraph, and raise your hand to indicate you have done your turn.

Now peoples hands are lowered by default, and people being picked multiple times etc.

Admittedly, this isn't what the raised-hand is for. But since there is no way to have a stable list (same order) of people in the meeting for all participants, this is the solution they went with.