Tens of billions of dollars in market cap of remote first orgs disagrees. You can work with colleagues without any superfluous social connection, it’s just a job, not a tribe or family. One should be both polite and effective; this does not make you friends.

The inability to support remote work signals the employer cannot manage based on performance, is power hungry, or is managing from emotion instead of data.

(have worked remote for 10+ years)

Yeah, but we know that people were more productive in home. So, nah.