Smoothing effect on 2021 M1 Pro Macbook is a problem Apple needs to address

Understood, but your team has consistently given people unhelpful and misinformed suggestions on this issue, seemingly deflecting from the fact this is an Apple problem. And let's be serious, how is some phone support person going to help with this issue? Rather, I think it's better for it to be aired out here for all to see, to hopefully pressure apple to actually fix this problem it has so far apparently been ignoring, as complaints have been happening since the release of the systems with these upgraded webcams.

Thanks for clarifying that. I apologize for mistaking the nature of this official discussion forum, though that doesn't make me feel any better about people raising this issue here and being consistently told to adjust third party app settings. That deserves commenting on in and of itself. Like I said, it's worth airing this issue out in public as much as possible to pressure Apple to recognize it, and calling support will likely be a waste of time, for me and anyone else concerned with this ongoing issue.

Fine, but at the same time this issue has been raised here and people have been consistently told to adjust their third party app settings. That's extremely frustrating, and gives the wrong impression about this issue. Even if Apple doesn't see this - and in all truth the fact is they must already be aware of this issue - the people here who have been giving that wrongheaded and frustrating advice need to hear this.