I just don't find this argument convincing. The tasks does not change because its remote, rather the costs have gone up to hire junior developers while costs to increase producitivity in existing devs have dropped significantly.

Namely, github copilot, which removed a lot of "hey junior can you write a class to talk to this CRUD api" to "hey github generate snippets of boilerplate code that I can tweak to my exact needs"

Lot of companies are realizing that their existing senior developers are now armed with this amazing tool and that its leading to faster turnarounds. The door appears to be closing for entry positions that used to take in high school drop outs, code bootcamp grads or single moms.