Typical executive hubris; engineers can’t wipe their ass unless they spend 6 months gathering data on which TP to use, but an exec wants to upend thousands of employees‘ lives? No data necessary, of course!
Alternatively, there is data, but he doesn't want to cite it, as it would reveal the actual, underlying reason for the decision, and he doesn't want to admit to it.
I totally can’t get why he (Jassy) and these other CEOs can’t just level with people and say “we need to keep our tax breaks and we’ve invested a lot in corp real-estate. We need you to come back.” People would be upset and rightfully so, but more upset than the myriad excuses they make up for this? We’d at least appreciate the honesty.
And if they truly were striving to be the world’s best employer they might actually pay for your parking or give a RTO bonus.