I'm on board with you on not wanting 100% remote anymore. I used to want to work 100% remote but this pandemic has shown me that working in any sort of team remotely is hard to get right (most companies don't). I've come to the conclusion that 3-4 days/wk max is viable and can be healthy.

The problem is there's so much information and communication that happens implicitly through our day-to-day actions that when you're remote, you have to make that information explicit. It's tiring as hell.

For example, meetings. In person, you can look at a room and understand some basic relationships-who is talking to whom, who is laughing, who is avoiding, etc. This gives you valuable information on the shape of the team and how to navigate and work best with each other. Turn that into a zoom meeting, however, and that information either has to be explicitly pointed out or it is lost. This kind of thing eats up valuable cycles for information that could have been communicated in a literal glance.