Corporations really be like "we would like to artificially limit our hiring pool to these 5 cities because it's Important for all of our employees to commute and sit in an office for all their zoom meetings 3 days per week."
Helpful hint, dingbats. In the US alone, there's some 320 million people who DON'T live in the 5 largest metro areas. Maybe a few of them are really good talent for you?

@JessTheUnstill Tempted to a cynical reply but cynicism is too damn easy.

These folks will at some point learn how bad of an idea it is to bubble up and wrap themselves in the soothing ego-boost of butts in seats.