I mean, so what? It's hard to be a good manager and if it's easier and more consistent for these companies to extract acceptable performance in office vs. remo

I mean, so what? It's hard to be a good manager and if it's easier and more consistent for these companies to extract acceptable performance in office vs. remote, why wouldn't they do it? People act like remote is right and in-office is wrong (or vice versa), but they're just choices with consequences. There's no objective right or wrong here.