Good remote work is more of an employer's market than a typical position. Someone looking specifically for remote is generally willing to jump through more hoops, I think.
The office is very old school- "have everyone there so you can watch them."
Having a remote job gets rid of that practice and a lot of unnecessary meetings and the like.
Putting up silly hurdles to applicants smells a lot like the nonsense that we have to put up with from old school HR setups (like the "please upload your resume, now give us your complete hob history in this poorly designed form" applications.)
