I really enjoyed it. My first year fully remote. It's been quite the change and while I will leave this job at the end of the month I think it's been a great experience.
Congrats on your first year fully remote! I was thinking of switching remote as well.
Did you encounter any challenges that you normally wouldn't have? If I may ask, why are you leaving it?
1) You don't have to commute (unless you want to - you can work at a co-working space)
2) You can travel around and still have a salary. I've worked from places like an apartment in Bangkok, a beach hut on an island in Malaysia, as well as a cottage in the heart of the English countryside.
But that's about it. It's still work. You still put in your eight hours plus a day. You still have to put up with shit. You still have to work on those things you'd rather not.
If you don't really enjoy the work, then remote working won't make up for that.
I would say give it a go though - it's the sort of thing that you need to try to see how it works out for you.
I crave a bit more of freedom of travelling and I will try and focus on some personal projects. At least for a while and if I see it's not working I'll go back to a "proper" job.
I haven't found many challenges other than taxes and stuff like that. Many countries I find are not ready to welcome people that move around a lot.
As for the job itself I keep a pretty strict regime on myself so I still try to do all office hours and keep in touch as much as I can. It is true tho that you do get "cut out" a bit and it's probably not the best for people that want to climb the ladder. For me it really helped the fact that I worked for a full year in the office with the same people so I knew them pretty well.