That one got so popular because it touched on several relevant aspects of the cultural zeitgeist - the struggle of everyone moving to remote work - the percei

That one got so popular because it touched on several relevant aspects of the cultural zeitgeist - the struggle of everyone moving to remote work - the perceived inability of the older generation to keep up - the perceived ridiculousness of some of the features tech companies were including to try to win the arms race (even though as the article correctly points out this particular feature is decades old, it symbolized a wider trend) - a somewhat humorous spin on all of the above