I don't think this is specific to working as a dev. It's more about the pandemic in my opinion. If you're not busy raising a family of your own right now (in wh

I don't think this is specific to working as a dev. It's more about the pandemic in my opinion. If you're not busy raising a family of your own right now (in which case you'd be like your friends, too busy for a social life), then you presumably still want to meet & be around people, and the loss of the office as a place for that, is a bigger loss than it is for someone who's not leaning that way.