My enjoyment of multiplayer games over the years has had an inverse relationship with the proliferation of voice chat.
hot take but the only upside to voice chat in games is that your hands are already busy, although that might be the voice dysphoria and bad hearing talking
if there's more than like 3 kinds of noise happening they all become unintelligible to me so in a game it's usually several kinds of combat noise + music + characters talking + multiple people on voice chat = hearing zero audio cues and having no idea what anyone just said
