Except you might want different error handling for different error codes. For example, our validation errors return a JSON object as well but with 422.
So treating "get a response" and "get data from a response" separately works out well for us.
There's only a 6 hour different between the East coast and Hawaii. You can't entirely avoid a night shift, so you might as well have them all work from the same location.
If I was making edits more often, I might run into sync conflicts. But I mostly edit on my PC, then might make small edits to recipes while I'm working in the kitchen.