You make an interesting point on managerial styles potentially biasing the decision making process for a WFH policy. It definitely is a situation where there are managers/directors/VPs who only know the adversarial style of management and imposes policies based on that perception.

At the end of the day, it is a high level leader making these decisions and it is likely a high level leader with experience/conditioning within an industry PRIOR to the pandemic so I would guess that they are more conservative or "old-school" with their perspective on company/workplace policies.