The 20-hour-full-time-from-home-six-figure tech job wasn't a new paradigm or a shift in c-suite work/life balance philosophy. It was 0% interest rates coupled with asset inflation leading to tech companies having more cash than they could possibly figure out how to spend. A transient financial anomaly in a whirlwind of larger economic conditions.

Now that the fed has been (rightfully)pulling the rug, people shouldn't be surprised if tech work goes back to the 60/70 hour grinds it was infamous for.