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They sent an email about this to Slack admins this morning, with a section "Why the change" that doesn't answer the question at all.

> Why the change:

> • We will be rolling out a new, faster version of calls in early July.

> • To enable this improved experience, we are removing the ability to share remote control of your screen during a Slack Call.

How does removing this feature enable an improved experience?

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With no personal knowledge here my guess is that's just marketing speak, and the real reason it was removed is... well... Slack is an enterprise product and a lot of enterprises don't want or need this, and the idea of a vector for remote control even being possible just blocks a lot of sales and complicates security audits in BigCo. I'm sure they offered a way to disable it but the feature was still in there so... just my guess though.

Nah, Zoom is an enterprise product, and they have this feature. (Slack is referring people who want remote control functionality to use Zoom.)

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