sorry for the miscommunication but i wasn't addressing what you meant or how you used it as much as i was just jumping on "IRL" to say its something that should be archaic...
regarding what you said, its a matter of big businesses vs. small businesses rather then online/offline.
talk to indevidual online contractors or small teams for whatever purpose and you'd get the same thing as you do in your town, and i can't tell you how many times living in a large cities in the US and canada i encountered "our computers don't allow us to do that" or "we can't do that" and i ended up with an annoyed "why the hell do they put people there if the one advantage they had - common sense - wasn't allowed to be used" line of thought, in real life.
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