Two things that many writers and software engineers share:
• a career that involves a lot of solitary work in front of a computer
• a tendency to generalize from a single example
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I like talking to my friends and relatives to have "non-desk" jobs for this reason. I've never done (or, frankly, thought about doing) any kind of job where I wouldn't spend most of the day sitting at a desk. Workdays look completely different for, e.g., nurses.
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The discourse around "the future of work" has been so incredibly frustrating because it's clear that it's 99% solitary writer types generalizing from their own example, without bothering to talk to anyone in the top categories (teaching, logistics, construction, retail, etc.).
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Ah, yes. I guess I do *want* a future where construction workers and truck drivers can work from home, but that future will require a lot more than Zoom and Slack. 🙃