> Because a cafe or public library doesn't have meeting rooms, whiteboards, monitors and other facilities that you often need.

Although a cafe will not have any of that, public libraries can often have some of that. But my point was that the horrid place they used to rent out in Aker Brygge (now taken over by another vendor) had very little of that as well. A shared noisy space + extremely tiny rooms for zoom meetings was all they had, and it wasn't cheap to rent a place there..

But at least here in Norway, there are other vendors that have much better deals. Perhaps things are very different in the US, but the product they offered here in Norway was not competitive. When I was in the market for something like that a few years ago, it was easy to find others offering much more (an actual office for myself) with access to a printer + meeting rom etc. for much less.