Having the best video/audio quality in any meeting gives you an edge on attention and being memorable. If "the guy with the fancy mic" gives good questions and answers in multiple sessions, people recognise it's the same person, so your brand becomes "person who asks good questions and has good answers and happens to have a nice and distinctive setup".
I want to get involved in less obscure stuff than the apps I develop that started 11 years ago in a team of 4, since I've been a team of 1 for a few years now and it doesn't seem to be getting better yet. I don't use branches in git because there's nobody else to merge with.
Having the best video/audio quality in any meeting gives you an edge on attention and being memorable. If "the guy with the fancy mic" gives good questions and answers in multiple sessions, people recognise it's the same person, so your brand becomes "person who asks good questions and has good answers and happens to have a nice and distinctive setup".