I think you're talking about a different phenomenon, having remote mixed teams is IMHO different from offshoring. There's at least the crucial difference that

I think you're talking about a different phenomenon, having remote mixed teams is IMHO different from offshoring. There's at least the crucial difference that you had devs in both western countries and traditional "third world", where the 90s view of offshoring was throwing whole processes abroad and only keep "heads" in-house while the remote teams/companies would deal with all the execution, making it inherently difficult to deal with production monitoring. PS: to your point offshoring to India has become more common but Indian companies are also not that cheap, so we're past the initial framework. Perhaps the same way outsourcing production to China used to be about sweatshops, when it can now be about unrivaled expertise at a cost.