What is this obsession with videoconferencing?

Because it better replicates a face-to-face meeting than a telephone call can. 

And because face-to-face meetings are a pain in the arse when one can stay at home in one's slippers and a  glass of decent claret. 

Would you recommend a plush merlot dominant right bank claret for most calls Dux?  Perhaps a more structured, perhaps even austere, left bank cab sav based one for a trickier call.  Obvs if it involves anyone advising on tax, gin is preferred.  Or maybe crystal meth or an opiate based painkiller.