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As a hybrid worker myself, I honestly enjoy it. I've got an open office with a couple of new hires that I'm mentoring. I can bother people at their desks, rather than fighting to schedule them over Teams for a five minute talk. Lunch spots downtown are genuinely good and I can stretch my legs a bit walking around.
Then I've got W/F to myself at home, so I can roll out of bed and dive in and eat out of my fridge.
The worst part about my job, atm, is that all our DBAs are these overseas contractors who are constantly coming and going and don't know our systems past whatever documentation got telephone-gamed to them over three prior managers. Would love for a little less work from ~~a trans-Pacific timezone~~ home, tbh.
Take that up with my utterly dysfunctional security-through-obscurity obsessed managers.
Because Teams is constantly ringing, as everyone is on a dozen different groups with back-and-forth that they aren't really a part of. So we've stopped paying attention to Teams messages in real time.
Also, sometimes its easier to carry a laptop over to someone and show them a thing with a simple question than to Teams in and share screen when they've got a dozen things up on their own monitors.
Oh, yes. That's awful. But then most large participatory meets are awful, just because its hard to engage that many people for any extended period of time. Unless you're just doing a quick presentation, large meetings almost always feel like a waste of time.
Getting documentation out of my coworkers is like pulling teeth. Everyone does things their own way and its almost never recorded in a central (much less organized) repository. One of my tasks over the last year has been about changing that, but even just getting a central Sharepoint repository that lots of people can access has been difficult.
Having a crowd of people in the office I can bother physically has been - in my experience - much more efficient than firing off emails or Teams notices that can be easily ignored.
I've worked in offices for a while, and there's definitely a difference between the "run out for a Subway sandwich then get back to work ASAP" and "meander down to the Tonkotsu ramen spot and chat with the owner while you enjoy some mid-day leisure time". If you're living the former, I get why WFH is orders of magnitude better. If you're enjoying the latter, it feels like you're being robbed if you can't experience the nicer parts of the city that you're ostensibly earning enough money to live in.
Why even have a good job in a nice city if you can't go out and do the things that these cities are known for?