I bet a big part of the topic of this video being so trivial is that there is no real problem that this product solves outside the realm of useless meetings. I like how the video is an unintended (is it?) critique of meetings in general.

As Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson put it(1): "The goal is to avoid meetings. Every minute you avoid spending in a meeting is a minute you can get real work done instead."

Maybe the goal of Enso is to save on travel costs/time?

1: https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch07_Meetings_Are_Toxic.ph...

wave strikes back.

That was my initial impression as well -- this is remarkably similar to Wave. Wasn't Wave open-sourced?

Yes: https://incubator.apache.org/wave/

Neat. Interesting that Slack (et al) seems to have succeeded where Wave failed.

Is it just that Wave was pitched as obsoleting email instead of complementing it?

Or does Slack actually have a better feature set than Wave ever did?

Or is the world just "ready for it" now in a way that it wasn't when Wave was proposed?