It's surprising to what extent the technical factors are detrimental to the communication. Even if I assume that you are a smart person that has spent a lot of time on this, I want to question whether you have done a call with a good wired headset, on a good wired broadband internet connection, and using Zoom's "original audio" setting.
In person is better of course but a low latency, high quality connection goes a LONG way and it's rare enough that most people have never experienced it.
In person is better of course but a low latency, high quality connection goes a LONG way and it's rare enough that most people have never experienced it.