Location is irrelevant to most, if not all, forms of knowledge work. The pandemic pushed remote work style and it's unlikely to put that genie back in the bottle. Butt-in-seat mentality is for dinosaurs.
While I agree that location shouldn't be relevant, the fact is that many companies will absolutely use (and probably already are using) this period of time as leverage to push for hybrid/full on-site roles instead of remote. The few remote roles advertised get quickly flooded with applications.
Most companies are dinosaurs, you are delusional to think otherwise.
The problem is: this is absolutely not true in the real world.