Re: "not everyone is yet ready to return to the corporate altar"
Your post sounds like a case of confirmation bias to me.
I work for a company with 70k employees globally, in many places the offices are open but few are using them. My own team has said, from management down, that we will not be returning to the office. Not for 5 days a week, not even for 2 or 3 days a week. I have never even seen the office since I changed job during the pandemic.
Some people want to be in an office - that's fine, you do you. But for some of us WFH is better for our work-life balance. Plus I never have to listen to inane conversations from the other people in the room while I'm trying to write code.