Yeah but I think this is a Simpson's paradox thing. The companies which are fully-remote have higher engineering talent bars and better pay (ie startups, FAANG

Yeah but I think this is a Simpson's paradox thing. The companies which are fully-remote have higher engineering talent bars and better pay (ie startups, FAANG, etc). The companies which are not-remote are low-pay low-skill engineering jobs (ie insurance companies). Within either of these buckets you may be right, but not across the industry.