What would be an "equal compromise" in your opinion?

Remote first, with appropriate hubs in geographic locations as needed. It worked for me pre pandemic and I used everything in between fully remote and in office (I had no need to relocate away from the office), it would happily work for me in a post-pandemic world too, as long as any hybrid arrangements are decided by individual teams’ needs and team members’ individual preferences and flexibilities (or lack of, as expected in life).