It’s less fatiguing than a zoom meeting, by like, a lot. The ability to look around, hear the direction of the person who’s taking (instead of trying to scan over a mosaic of videos to see who’s talking).

They’re not “loosing” a billion dollars a month, they’re spending that on R&D which is expensive, but will be recouped with future income from what they’re researching and developing.

If you looked at the Apple CPU R&D as a separate business entity that too would be “losing” billions a year, but they recoup that (and…

Having done meetings in workrooms - it beats Zoom hands down. Much less fatiguing and they got the positional audio totally on point.