Seems like, unilaterally, Zoom just decided to enforce the use of at least one of their security options: Passcode or Waiting Room.

This can be especially annoying for organizations, like ours, where we loved how simple it was to just share a link and get immediate access to Zoom rooms. I understand passcodes can be appended to the URL, but we really like we just had to bookmark mark these URLs and we were ready to go.

This is especially useful since we're in the middle of a Pandemic and we spend a lot of time in Zoom meetings, switching from one room to the other.