Except that Skype forces you to use a recent version so pretty soon the tolerable version you are using won't work.It's getting worse and worse. Literally bunch of idi*ts work on this SW. I am not planning upgrade to this crap. Sorry for such words, but..
The introduction of group video calls in "standard" Skype has been the only recent improvement and I suspect that will be messed up by the new interface. BTW - Apple was guilty of killing off group video calls going from iChat to Facetime many years ago.