Was cautiously pessimistic until I understood that Skype won't happen again because we have alternative: gitlab (and others). So it will either get better (good) or everyone will move to gitlab (good, more likely, ms hater here). So here goes.
Well as for Skype, there are a dozen alternatives out there (such as Wire). Much as I'd like to see an influx of users from Skype, very few people have it. The only group that's on there is colleagues and friends of colleagues, after the company did a pentest on Wire (see Wire's website for the reports).