Agreed but I suppose the problem then is you could have an interviewer hand off his or her duties to a third party. In theory, regular presence in an office is a mitigation against this.
And as much as I hate to admit it, remote work has so many downsides for most companies, I see why many of them are in on RTO and hybrid.
Luckily in 2020 I pivoted to cloud consulting + app dev where it doesn’t make sense to be in the office since you will either be working with clients remotely or flying into their offices.
And even then AWS forced their ProServe consultants and SAs (full time employees) to be in an office when not on the client’s sites after I had already left. As does GCP.
