yup this is a dumb opinion

Screen sharing is the whole point of a meeting. You get real-time feedback and clarification. If you aren't sharing a screen then the meeting should have been an email.

Yeah I'm not gonna show you all my 3D CAD model as I'm not an incompetent fuck. Imma just tell you how it looks and you will imagine it.

Fair enough, this is unpopularopinion, but have you ever heard of engineering?

You want play people to put in extra work to make a video and then play that video instead of presenting? Because you wouldn't present something to a group of people during an in-person meeting?

You didn't even make a cogent argument.

I don't use teams, but hard disagree. My team screenshares all the time for pair programming, and even for regular meetings, screen sharing a slide deck or basic agenda is helpful for focusing conversation. I have presented before without sharing a screen and things go off the rails really quick. Focusing attention on the topics being discussed helps keep things as brief and efficient as possible. Presenting an agenda and topics also shows professionalism and that you are trying to respect people's time by keeping things focused.

If it's an actually useless meeting... Just don't go? It's not that hard.

This reads like

1. Chatgpt
2. ChatGPT
3. CHATGPT

I think whatever meetings you're attending are probably meetings you should start skipping unless they directly impact your role. I'm getting a general sentiment that you feel like they're a waste of time, or some kind of organisational baggage.

Either way, your point on screen sharing is very most certainly unpopular. I personally think it's extremely useful, particularly for cross functional work where either team is completely unfamiliar with the other's chosen collaboration software

I know my context here is different, but sharing my screen is an easy and quick way to show how to do something. I use discord constantly to show what setting to change, or what order mods should be in for friends, or how to set up that V rising server with the save file from last time, or how to fix that weird bug that my buddy describes and I immediately recall and know how to fix.

There are times a proper video or document are better, but I'd argue only when you're showing or teaching a process to a large number of people, over a spread out period of time, like a doc on how to set up your company email for new hires or something like that.

If its a short demo in a meeting for a simple process or temporary issue, its just a huge time saver to be able to just show people how to do it right then and there. Plus a screen share can be flexible enough to answer unexpected questions or issues that a static doc might not, like if tim has his start menu on the side, or mary doesn't have the right directx version installed and you gotta swerve to fix the edge cases. Hard with a static doc or premade vid, easy with a screen share.

If it can be explained in a premade video or a slideshow it probably doesn't need to be a meeting anyways. Just send it out and deal with issues as they arise.

Of course I come at the concept more from a basic IT perspective so ymmv, but for me its a very useful and flexible tool that can save me time and make explaining things much simpler.

Well, this is certainly one of the takes of all time...