[badpun]

> about whether it should be done this way or that way, by people who have no understanding of the technical realities.

This will most likely still happen, just over Jira, chat, and code review comments, making it more painful (as the bandwidth is lower) than in real life.

[yoz-y]

Those are much easier to ignore though.

[badpun]

The non-essential stuff (ex. people asking to "take a quick look" at something) yes, but for anything that still pertains to your task at hand you'll still need to respond. You get the benefit of being able to respond asynchronously, but so does everybody else, which can make a simple conversation (on which your task depends) take days.