“This is a great benefit for organizations with not enough video conferencing rooms or without resources for dedicated conference room equipment.”
Meet now detects several laptops in one room and merges their microphones and speakers so nobody gets feedback. Google pitches it for lounges and cafes because the office has no free meeting rooms. Admins get no control over it, and it ships on by default. Companies dragged everyone back to the office and the fix is pretending the laptops are a conference room.