Yes. I not only just think that it is better with WFH. I objectively know that it is better than losing ~2 hours everyday on the road, on transportation, navigating the cityscape and stressed-out commuters.

The problem with people working longer hours is an adaptation problem. People will eventually develop practices and routines and they will solve it.

The argument about 'offices supporting ecosystems of small businesses' is really inconscionable: So people should commute and lose 2 hours every day in order to protect local businesses who make money by providing goods and services to people who are there because they have to commute there? That kind of logic could have justified banning cars in order to keep the carriage businesses alive.

"Carbon intensivity" is not an argument. That is a function of a society's energy production methods. If the energy grid is greener, everything is greener. If its not, it cannot be made an argument for shoving people into cars, trains and buses to have them commute to an office. That is before the fact that its amazing how people were able to produce 'studies' that said shoving people into cars and transportation and making them travel is somehow less carbon 'intensive'. Should be the kind of 'study' that one can get from a private American think-thank after paying them a few million dollars to get them prove whatever you want 'proven'. I can easily see the incumbent industries 'funding' such 'studies' as a lot of traditionally-minded companies and their exec pretaining to earlier ages still want 'bums on seats' because that means 'people are working'.

Mixing with people isnt something that should be forced like this by making people lose hours of their lives every day. That does not even make sense to propose it.