Your experience matches what I see in offline contexts. I think comment sections online online have a disproportionately large number of people who prefer to get their social activity online. It's natural that people who spend a lot of time on forums, HN, Twitter, and social media would want their workplaces to also go remote.

I take a lot of the remote-work perspective on HN with a grain of salt. It's easy to forget that HN is still a bubble online that doesn't necessarily represent the norms in the real world.