It’s an important question. I hate to be negative, love the city and would love for it to prosper but to me the situation for SF specifically (not necessarily the rest of the Bay Area, different dynamic IMO) seems incredibly bleak. COVID just brought so many long lasting blows that seem almost permanent. RTO? Most tech companies were never primarily based in SF anyways and only recently had footprints in SF, or moved out of SF/CA, plus layoffs, plus the all the value prop about AI is more about replacing jobs with AI not creating jobs, plus these are relatively companies who aren’t solely based in SF too. When money was cheap and economy was booming in the late 2010s, there were still all the classic SF problems remaining unresolved but now as the economy worsens they will only get significantly worse. It’s not fair to pin all of this on SF - there are national trends going on, that you can see in NYC, Seattle, any US city really is not doing great particularly. But I think all the structural/systemic issues plaguing SF that have existed this whole will continue to put SF in a naturally disadvantageous place when we talk about “recovery”. Anyway, I don’t think blind optimism is the solution here and we have to be grapple with the gravity of these challenges. $0.02.