>>5962341I was going to say more or less this.
Live is preferable, but some things are not amenable to live: coordinating 40 people across a gorillion time zones, who already all have crazy upside-down sleep schedules... to all appear in lockstep? As we saw with Gura oversleeping even limited groups can have that issue. Now imagine on any given day that at least 1 of the 40 are going to have a technical issue.
It's not impossible to do live graduations of many formats, and I would prefer it in principle, but there are situations where I am fine with it, as it is the only practical way.