In 70 years, articles will talk about the strange drone invasion only for it to be discovered that planes and drones were always in the air, but people just never bothered to look up until everyone started talking about it.
I worked on a project where we handled the results of an API call. For testing we mocked the various API call results. When we went live, we discovered they had changed the results of the API call. All the testing was worthless.
Still, I hate having bugs in my code and strive to make sure they don't happen. Still I have had managers release my code when I tell them there are active bugs being worked on.
I made my career with managers thinking that I could produce much better than the majority of their employees. The reality was that I would do things like: "Come in a hour before the other employees" or "work an extra hours after I got home".
In those quiet times I could accomplish more work than the 8 hours in an open office where every phone or person walking by was a distraction. Management thought I was so good, but the reality is that open offices are so inefficient they cut productivity by 80% and I worked around their inefficiently.
WFH evened the playing field for a while, because others became more efficient but the incompetence of insecure managers is reestablishing their inefficient open offices again.