re: What work from home has ruined?

Work from home has improved employee morale, reduced costs, improved actualized pay, and reduced employee turnover massively.
I collaborate with co-workers more than ever conceived prior to WFH. We get together once a month and for trips, and miraculously we know each other.

You can't just apply your scenario to the entire universe. Some companies were WFH before WFH was popular, funny how those weren't the end of times? I know a dozen folks like that have never had to go into an office except on rare occasion. We just used to call it "remote."

I'm sorry that you preferred wasting hours during the day on the road, in the office chatting, trudging between meetings, taking long lunches... as opposed to the infinitely more efficient way we are doing it today.