[calderwoodra]

There's no risk for senior engineers. Senior engineers have all the power in the current job market.

Either you're seeing mid-level or lower RTO or there's another reason.

[dole]

Senior engineers are the new mid-level, or you graduate to management. Maybe YOUNG "senior engineers" seem to have the power, the Sr. Engineers pushing 50 and 60 need to prove their worth against younger and cheaper work, domestic or offshore/remote.

[mostlysimilar]

If you're working for an organization with such incompetent technical leadership to believe this then you should jump ship immediately, because they're doomed regardless.