Maybe it's a generational thing? I grew up using the computer in my bedroom, I have known friends for 10+ years online only and I've used to async communication

Maybe it's a generational thing? I grew up using the computer in my bedroom, I have known friends for 10+ years online only and I've used to async communication from participating in guilds thoughout many games. I'm used to timezone differences through state of the guild meetings being held at awkward times and from running an in-game logistics company with important strategic deadlines due to wars. Working online and communicating through slack & zoom seemed very natural to me because I've used slack/discord/irc through jabber/trello/mumble/ts3/custom forum software throughout my teenage years. Continuing that into working in an online-only environment feels very natural. Some guilds literally have HR people that contact you when you first join to make sure you can login to the documentation (usually a mediawiki setup) and see the guides for setting up auth for all the services. They have been practicing onboarding people remotely for all of their existence.