I'm happy to sit down and discuss pros and cons of in-person work, but it's a fundamentally miserable experience to commute to office just to use teams or slack anyways.
You can't just create cross-country teams and reap the benefit of setting up teams based on expertise instead of location, and at the same time staunchly defend the benefits of forced return to office.
It boggles my mind that some directors and manages don't see the they're turning their offices into glorified call centers and of all options, that's the worst way of working.