> Everyone’s job is different, everyone is different. There are productive engineers who are introverts and there are productive engineers who are extroverts. Making jokes in the office and having conversations does not take time away from doing good work - no dev is productive 100% of the time.

I would go even further than that in your criticism of the overgeneralisation: there are engineers who are introverts and want to go back to the office.

I'm sure this is very dependant on the local or office culture, but introverts can very much miss social contact in the office as well.