If a startup can't afford a decent quiet office, they most certainly can't afford all the maintenance that will be caused from creating software in a toxic open

If a startup can't afford a decent quiet office, they most certainly can't afford all the maintenance that will be caused from creating software in a toxic open-office environment. I've never seen great code come out of an open-office. It can be good but the inability to focus in these environments usually show up in the resulting code.