Their metaverse sucked and nobody wanted to use it.

I personally like VR meetings but there is still too much friction versus how quick it is to start up a video call.

In my opinion larger meetings do work worse in video calls. It just isn't great having lots of small squares. But small <4 people meetings do work better when you can really see and pay attention to every clearly.

I mean - this is the obvious conclusion. Because the metaverse is a stupid idea. Nobody needs the full VR movie theatre when they can go to youtube quicker and easier.

If they received push back from dogfooding, that just means they need to knock those sharp corners off. I'd suggest what they want is a meeting application and making VR easy to put on and off, and combining the two worlds.

It's entirely realistic to dogfood here, people are just reacting to the obvious reactions from the first iteration. You don't stop there though.