I have lived in Santa Clara and every day done a 1.5 to 2 hour commute one way to go to my office in SF. I know people who drive 1 - 2 hours to Apple or pay ins

I have lived in Santa Clara and every day done a 1.5 to 2 hour commute one way to go to my office in SF. I know people who drive 1 - 2 hours to Apple or pay insane high rents. Then combine that with limited space on desk and insane distractions of getting pulled over by someone who was stuck on a very small configuration which he/she could have figured out at his/her own by spending 15 mins (rather than borrowing me for 5 mins and disrupting my thought process worth hours). I believe what COVID made me realize was the fact how much bullshit I was keeping up with (including social pressure stuff) to just be “good team player”. You can think of me as introvert but I am very talkative and social person.I believe 3 hours worth of commute and the ceremony stand-ups are not required when you have technology at disposal. Google, Microsoft, and Apple should be leading the charge on this technology centric culture rather than being backwards, stuck in time. If I am asked today to return back to office I would rather resign and be freelance developer than being stuck in the company policy prison again.