At both the startup and my current employer my salary has increased and I've been promoted. I'm happy where I am professionally and my income supports my family

At both the startup and my current employer my salary has increased and I've been promoted. I'm happy where I am professionally and my income supports my family. So I think I'm doing okay. I've been good about finding high impact projects that I can either handle mostly on my own or with a small team. I've also been fortunate to work for good companies, and had mostly good managers and coworkers. There are definitely some frustrations and downsides to working from home, but overall for me I prefer it and I believe I've contributed more value to the companies I've worked for than if I had been in the office every day. I just spent a week out in CA for my current employer, who has recently converted to a full open office plan and the environment seemed very chaotic to me. I certainly didn't get as much done than when I am at home (part of this is because I wasn't using my usual work-station). When I last worked full time in an office, we had half-height cubicles with 4 employees to a "pod" which worked okay for me at the time. But I was doing sysadmin/devops work then so I was used to constant interruptions. As a programmer now, I can't imagine getting anything done outside a quiet office. I can't even read a book anymore if I hear voices in the background. I wonder if the ability to do so has atrophied?