A completely unnecessary complication

The (rather dull, but harmless I guess) nerd Lex Fridman was all super excited earlier today about this:

My reaction, which only took about 5 seconds to occur to my sub-genius level brain:   "Oh, so you mean, you experienced something exactly the same as a high quality video call, but using - what? - twenty times the computer power??   Big advance...."

But:  I have scrolled quite a way down in the fanboy comments after this post, and still haven't found anyone making this point.   Instead we get many variations on this:

Excuse the shouting, but:

HOW??   YOU CAN ALREADY DO THIS OVER VIDEO!   IS NOT HAVING TO SHAVE OR COMB YOUR HAIR OR GET OUT OF YOUR PJ'S REALLY THAT BIG AN ADVANCE TO ONLINE MEETINGS?