WaPo thinks DC businesses have a claim on workers' spending and employers should help enforce that claim with a return to office.
There is 1 good reason to return to office: jobs whose output is impossible to measure at all. The risk for fraud is high.
As for software, it is (inter)national job market now. It goes as the world goes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/27/federal-employees-return-office/