I agree with you, but in practice I've seen that even if a company wants to go distributed, they lack the knowledge on how to make the model actually work for t

I agree with you, but in practice I've seen that even if a company wants to go distributed, they lack the knowledge on how to make the model actually work for them. They resort to using the exact same process with more conference calls and emails. That clearly doesn't work as you miss many subtle communication queues.