That sounds like more of a managerial or organisational fuck-up rather than a problem with remote on itself. Several companies I worked for used a very similar

That sounds like more of a managerial or organisational fuck-up rather than a problem with remote on itself. Several companies I worked for used a very similar set of processes as when they were working in the office, paired with a set of wrong expectations with the employees. Moving away from this and understanding how to work at best took several months, and entirely flipped around the team's ability to perform, to the point that being remote was even more productive both on a subjective and objective scale (e.g. lead/cycle time).