For the record I'd prefer a work environment that's closer to maybe 1-2 times a month in the office.
> Most developers are self learners (that's how most people learn to code anyway)
I don't think that's true. If you poll the vast majority of people in intro to CS class, most people never coded before. I recall it being a small minority at least back when I was in school (> 10 years ago).
There's also stats comparing before WFH and after of how long long it takes someone to onboard properly/be productive (forget the exact stat/KPI, mix of survey/commit stats?) and it's extended by a few months. Now that might be due to bad on-boarding since it wasn't a remote-first, but if that still exists years later it is interesting
> People collaborate better in person: Bullshit, a lot of developers collaborate better through text
Agree with that. I really wish we would write better docs and have more of an async setup
I do genuinely think there's aspect/learning that is lost/slower in the last few years, but that might be because we haven't really thought about accepting "remote-first" and trying to shoehorn what we already had into WFH model.