Seriously, if you're junior then you're more desperate and you're going to straight face lie about your opinions to make yourself more hireable.

I’m sure there’s some of that, but is it really that hard to imagine that someone at the beginning of their career would get more out of being in-person? I certainly benefitted from that at the beginning of my career.

We’re a small team (3) who works in-person by coincidence of being local, but we are explicitly open to remote within overlapping time zones.