It's funny how you make a generalisation and then are very specific. Not everyone decided to have children. I have designed my own living situation to be quiet and to minimize distractions. Even if your home is a very distracting place, working remotely doesn't have to mean working from home. You still get all the other benefits of openness and communication and you can rent your own small office with a door that closes.

I find it challenging to concentrate in an open floor plan office that is full of people. I find it absurd that it has become the status quo for software development.

Point taken.

The open office layout is a scam - pushed based on the build-out costs of new office space in a very rapidly expanding market in Silicon valley over the last two decades.

Companies needed lots of office space very fast. Companies also dies fast.

Building out office space is expensive and the push for open office layouts as a "culture" bit was just as much marketing as anything else...