Indeed, I also feel its a closed loop, you only get managers who want to be in total control, which tightens the loop, and we end up with daily stand ups in a battery cage under continuous surveillance.
It gets worse at the lower end of the food chain (e.g. call centres) - even toilet breaks are monitored. Strangely though in the same places there is often a lot of down time because calls are bursty, so watching youtube is permitted (friends of my daughters talk). We are indeed in the strangest timeline.
Open offices are a psychological tool to control workers. All privacy is removed. This allows them to impose their will on you.
In exchange they get reduced productivity but they don’t seem to care about that as much as control over their staff.