Personally, I’ve seen less and less A/V setup fiddling over the last couple years. Except when screen sharing comes into play. That’s still a nightmare for some reason.

And I do agree about the whiteboard thing, to a point. My team tends to do more long-form writing instead, and if diagramming is necessary, we use something like Monodraw.

WFH heading more towards sync than async feels like a cultural problem, perhaps partially rooted in a lack of trust if management can’t look over everyone’s shoulders. I’m sure that there are companies that are doing this, but I hope that this is not part of some wider trend.