[thinker5555]

Disclaimer: I'm not a developer, but a data analyst in a very small ecommerce company and fulfillment center. I do quite a bit with light-to-medium automation and "development", as needed, but my skill level at anything development related is probably at the level of a hobbyist.

For the workers that are capable of working from home, my workplace asks us to be in the office only on Thursday morning each week. This gives us a consistent time to do things like having our company-wide meetings or social events like company sponsored meals, fun events, etc.

During COVID, I was perfectly happy working at home. My workplace ensured that I had a desk setup that matched what I had in the office, and my home "office" was removed enough from the chaos of the rest of the house that it worked well.

My decision to start going back to the workplace was in the middle of 2022, when all the COVID related stuff finally started calming down and things like mask regulations started to relax. Some of my decision was due to needing to work in a location where I couldn't distract myself by going and doing things around the house. I had started to do that more and more frequently, mostly due to my ADHD and the fact that the novelty of working from home had worn off.

But another really big part of my decision was because I REALLY did miss seeing my coworkers in person. I'm in this rare unicorn situation where I absolutely love what I do, I love the company I work for, and I love the people I work with. Being there just makes me happy at all levels. This isn't even about an "ideal office setup" in the strict sense you're thinking of. I'm currently in my own office, but I spent the first 3.5 years working in an open office with 3 to 5 others, and that was just as good.

I know a lot of people that have that "Sunday Dread" about having to go to work on Monday, but I honestly get almost giddy Sunday evening knowing that I'll get to go to work the next morning. The really funny thing is that I consider myself to be a pretty extreme introvert. But all in all, I'm well aware that this whole outlook is extremely uncommon, so it's probably not truly considered a "blind spot" on your part, but more that I'm just an outlier.