SV is only dying due to remote work, which is due to COVID. If COVID stops being a problem, in-office will return, and SV will come back to life. A lot of peopl

SV is only dying due to remote work, which is due to COVID. If COVID stops being a problem, in-office will return, and SV will come back to life. A lot of people know this, and a lot of people are anticipating COVID to be over soon. So there's reluctance to put down serious roots elsewhere (besides the big companies like Goog and Meta that already were expanding to second-and-third-tier cities pre-pandemic). If COVID continues to necessitste remote work for, say, another 2 years, you'll see micro-SVs spring up, probably around top-tier engineering schools.