I think there’s a bit of both. Ineffective middle management (which is most of it) has no place in a world where they cannot lord over their minions in an offic

I think there’s a bit of both. Ineffective middle management (which is most of it) has no place in a world where they cannot lord over their minions in an office setting. So builds an echo chamber between executives (with real estate investment) and middle management (the existence of whose very job requires them not to understand and promote remote work), at the expense of the actually productive.