All of your points are 100% true. There are workarounds, but generally I think we need to embrace these challenges as perfect use cases for our own work as tech

All of your points are 100% true. There are workarounds, but generally I think we need to embrace these challenges as perfect use cases for our own work as technologists. If you were to project our current technical culture many years into the future, flying cars, free energy, clean water, etc., would we still have to herd ourselves into a central location every day so we can sit in a chair that is positioned next to a bunch of other people in order to accomplish the most basic communicative/collaborative tasks? With all that we've accomplished and all that we will accomplish, it seems to me that's not the way of the future, that's the way of the past. TL;DR; It's not that remote work is easy, it's just that we smell of hypocrisy when we try to apply technology to every possible problem while rejecting it for our own.