You talk about being "forced" to be in an office but ignore the other side of being "forced" to work over video calls.
I mean, neither are forced, like I said I just left the industry. So it goes, life moves on. What a shame to have wasted so much time on a dead end path, though now I'm having great fun doing other stuff. :)
If you don’t want to be “forced”, then become your own boss- this is a Y Combinator site, after all. Become an entrepreneur or a freelancer. Or drop out of the workforce entirely into the ranks of r/antiwork.
It sounds like you’ve found a new path, that’s great! You do you, but trumpeting it in such an oblique way is just Vaguebook humblebragging.
Most office jobs aren't even going as bonkers as software dev.
If you see me saying "software development left me behind" as a humblebrag, that's on you.
I had a job I loved, and propaganda deleted it.