It's 90% the commute (and the time lost in commuting, especially if you need to set up your gear), and only 10% actually being in an office. I have been fully remote 10+ years now while everyone else was at the office in a city I moved from, so that's the worst of both worlds: people don't need to be social on Teams/Slack, they are social by the coffee machine. But I'm not at the coffee machine.
The pandemic was a huge improvement. Suddenly everyone was remote. So it's definitely improved. In a perfect world I'd be very happy to go to an office one or two days per week and have meetings, be social. If the commute was 5 minutes rather than an hour, then I'd be happy to do it 3-4 days a week. But I don't think I'd want it to be 5 days even if I could walk there in two minutes.
The pandemic was a huge improvement. Suddenly everyone was remote. So it's definitely improved. In a perfect world I'd be very happy to go to an office one or two days per week and have meetings, be social. If the commute was 5 minutes rather than an hour, then I'd be happy to do it 3-4 days a week. But I don't think I'd want it to be 5 days even if I could walk there in two minutes.