Going back to actual offices with doors would be way better for employees’ health.

Cubicles are still a way to treat employees like cattle. Except that this free-range approach to cubicles mixes the worst of cubicles with not having ways to deal with interruption, distraction, noise.

That doesn't mean open space offices are better. Free range cattle is still cattle, isn't it?

Working from home is like working in your private office, which in the 90s was reported as a perk and a status symbol.

Offices are great! Unless they're internal and don't have windows (although some people definitely still like them).

Cubicles are great! Unless they're in giant internal rooms that don't have windows, or don't have enough windows / the right kind of windows for the space (although some people definitely still like them).

AFAICT it's not that cubicles sucked, it's that they correlated with a bunch of things that made the job also suck, but cubicles were an easy thing to refer to about that kind of workplace culture.

...arguably, the same can be said about a chunk (but not all) of the complaints around open offices.