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I would bet on the screen sharing not being that big of a requirement for most people. Voice and text chats though? Yeah, that's the minimum.
A lot of people I know regularly use screen sharing through discord or opentalk. Both for work/productivity and while gaming (watching each other, helping, sharing what people are up to etc).
To get people to switch it sadly should support all features: text, voice, video and sending files/images/gifs/videos.
It's tough.
Sure, a lot of people use it, because it exists. How many of those people would actually say it's a requirement to be built into it though? There's plenty of other options for screen sharing they could use. I don't know though. Maybe a lot of people actually do consider it a critical feature. I doubt it though. I've used it a few times with my group, but it's only ever a "do you want to see this?" It's just a bonus, not a requirement.