That is not true in my experience.. we regularly use meet with around 50 participants at work.

I'm curious, what are you doing that requires supporting hundreds of active participants (as opposed to a few active participants, plus a hundreds of spectators)?

I run a free virtual coworking community. Going over 15 users isn’t uncommon. Though since it is based around coworking and accountability, most users are closer to spectators than active participants.

I’m not putting shade on Meet. Haven’t used it in over a year.