I think people should just decide for themselves what to do and just learn the basics of how to do lighting. My boss often sits in his closet with lots of suits and shirts behind him, which confuses the filter enough to replace all his hair with the company background. My home office looks too messy and unprofessional when in focus, but has nice colors when blurred heavily. Plus nvidia broadcast for noise filtering and background blurring, which makes the task easier for teams to blur it some more without cutting into me. I use a good webcam and I mounted a soldering light above my screen as a ringlight which works surprisingly well. Personally I'm not a fan of background removal/replacement unless it's done properly, but I do like blurring. We only have to use them when talking to people outside the company, but most people just leave them on all the time. Basically it looks like there's a challenger approaching in Smash Bros. My company had the marketing department design a few abstract backgrounds with company colors / logos, which look fine on their own, but incredibly weird when there's a blurry and badly cut-out person with a window behind them. I remind myself not everybody is so lucky. Maybe it is a sign of privilege though that I have a spare bedroom with a white wall behind me I can use without background or blur. I would much rather see his living room or whatever he's trying to hide - and it being real - than this weird fake office thing he is trying to do instead.
I find calls with him with the video so distracting. He stands out like a sore thumb in the grid of people in video in larger meetings now too as the only one not in color and with a weird background (others just blur it which I also kind of hate - but less). I asked him if he was using some sort of filter and he was like "I don't like the color of my face in my camera". Not to mention he has headphones where you see these slivers of no background through them around his head.
Plus he now has some greyscale or sepia filter so that he looks like a ye olde ghost for some reason. My new boss both has a background that is 'our office open plan area but empty' (he must have taken a photo when the place actually was empty) when he's at home.
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