I don’t just think that. There is a lot of data backing that up, and yes, for every company forcing back to office, there is another capitalizing on their loss of talent.
This is the government, this is about efficiency, and what can be demonstrated with evidence, not how you feel about something.
You keep coming at this from the angle I am mad people lose their jobs. I am not, they will very likely find work without a huge issue. The problem is the government, that I pay taxes to, is using uselessly less efficient methods of operation, out of a combination of spite, and the desire to meet the project 2025 quota of turning people over to those who will kiss the ring.
You are like a con-man who thinks everyone else is also a fraud because you can’t imagine people thinking drastically different than you, about the same things. That and the crabs in a pot mentality of “you can’t have it better than I did! if things get better, that’s not fair to me! now get back down here and suffer with me.”