QUESTION for zoom experts:

Earlier this week, I was in a pre-arranged zoom meeting. Initially, when I tried to enter at the scheduled time, I got a message that the host hadn't yet started the meeting (this continued for at least ten minutes) and then I thought I saw something saying that the host was in a different meeting. Anyway, we eventually started and had about twenty people. Later the meeting suddenly cut off, at forty minutes after the *scheduled* starting time and I wasn't able to find the meeting again. When I explore my free personal zoom account, it says that meetings over three people are limited to forty minutes and offers an option to upgrade to some premium zoom service.

I also have a zoom account from my employer where I've been scheduling meetings for up to about twenty-five people that last over two hours, I seem to be able to start these meetings early, even very early, and to continue past the scheduled ending time without problem. However, without clear rules, I'm not willing to use my work zoom account for things of a more personal nature.

Is my guess right that our meeting host was trying to use a personal account inappropriately and should have had a (presumably paid) business account or at least the enhanced personal account (presumably also paid)? I feel offended that the guy has apparently been doing a series of these zoom meetings and accepting the limitations of using a personal account because he's too cheap to set up some sort of a paid account for a small business. I also had the impression that he was attempting to do a bunch of these zoom "meetings" back-to-back, knowing full well that there would be strict and somewhat unreasonable (IME given what I implicitly paid to participate) time limits. In other words, I suspect that our meeting host is a jerk and might well be violating the terms of his zoom account. Am I being unfair here?

BTW, this was a "marketing" function by a smallish-business. In fact, it was a pre-arranged wine tasting (organized by a wine store for a bunch of people who are strangers to each other) with a successful (even celebrity and cult-iish) winemaker as host; the co-host seemed to be a representative of the winery's distributor for the state.