[tayo42]

Not everyone has that control over their life. Like some might be stuck in a cycle of work and exist. Some people lost their jobs and had time to maybe realize they really weren't happy. Some people got bored of the default social location of bars and restaurants. Now there's no more forced work events.

Maybe you had some perfect life before covid where you had a 100% control over your life and you could tell people to fuck off and not have repercussions, but most people don't and they're stuck compromising. So in someway the interruption was welcome. Now some people are demanding everything goes back to how it was, some people don't want that. So they write articles on the internet about it. Its not really hard to get, just have some empathy.

> I don't get why "Society" needs to change

And this isn't just about socialization. People, at least Americans, are uncomfortable with the idea of doing nothing. The protestant work ethic has been shoved down our throats. Its immoral to not work, or if you are working to not be at your most efficient. Covid turned this upside down, it was finally OK to be lazy, to do nothing, and not keep the capitalist wheel of buying and consuming turning. Its been ok to "steal time" from your employer or be on unemployment. This maybe isnt a radical idea to say, but to experience it and see it worked for a lot of people is changing their world view. We can do nothing, we don't need to run at 100%, the world won't collapse and I'm not immoral for it. That is a societal change.