>Is it really hard to understand that the infrastructure for remote work, which I think everyone would agree got a major upgrade during the pandemic, would also make it much easier for companies to outsource software dev work?

No, because it wasn't actually upgraded.

Like be honest, the shift into remote work wasn't surrounded by massive tech advances or upgrades. All the tools that existed for remote work had been there, largely in the same fashion and capability, for decades.

So when you say the infra. and tooling has improved, you need to be specific because it's very hard to point to anything that was fundamentally or notably improved in the pandemic around remote work.

It all existed before. It was all used before. If you weren't using it before the pandemic that was by choice, not because it didn't exist.

Everything from our communication software, to developer collaboration tools, to how org's track and manage their employees all existed well, well before the pandemic.

It was a cultural change -- not a technological one.

> And that is a change that only happened around the beginning of the pandemic

I'm not sure what you're basing this on. Especially someone's that's had to work with peers across the globe for 4+ decades -- the tools have always been there.