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This is fair, and a good example of context dependent.FWIW I can anecdotally confirm what that article is saying but I'd like to add something I think a lot of people are suspecting. For context, my team is 15 people and we have gone from full remote to hybrid and now back to full in person.
Our takeaway is as follows; our best employees were consistently doing the same volume and quality of work at home or at the office. Our weaker staff were significantly worse when remote. We had some internal discussions and the excuses were plenty but ultimately these weaker employees need the ability to quickly ask for guidance/help from coworkers sitting next to them (not leadership) or they flounder. The more they struggle, the less motivated they get, and the less gets done.
For our team normally when in person we focus on things like this, and usually there is a ramp up period when someone is starting when the learning curve is huge where in person helps more. But because of the housing costs and how far people live from the actual office we started doing some in person stuff like that at people's places if it was more convenient (if everyone was okay with it obviously). But that way people only had a short drive and didn't have to pay for parking.
Once people got up to speed on frequent tasks, the amount of in person mentoring for stuff like that tapered off, and usually not much that can't wait a few days until the next in person day at the office (so 2-3 business days max generally).
If the office wasn't far and you didn't need to pay for parking it's a lot easier to sell. In the NCR in particular though, you can easily drive 90 minutes between DND locations during the day with traffic, and 1-2 hour commutes each way are a real thing as well with housing going north of 700k-1M, and apartments at 2-3k a month in town. With the broken LRT public transit is questionable so overall lots of disincentives to going back to the office full time if hybrid is working.
The other intangible thing I find useful is the days where I want to take off my uniform and quit 'Slapshot' style by flipping a double bird as I run out to the parking garage in my skivvies is that I can take a break a lot easier, and do things like listen to music at volume to relieve the urge to throat punch someone. Sometimes that might just be a 5 minute breather browsing here or something, but that probably kept me from getting charged and committed on a psych hold last year when I was covering 7 jobs.