The reality is that many people don’t want to talk to anyone else, and ultimately want to be paid to do little or no work at all.
So many folks are completely disconnected from the performance of their group (whatever structure that group takes), that stuff like this starts to sound appealing.
Nobody who wants to get things done (that actually benefit the group) would advocate for not collaborating with other members of the group, but folks who want to maximize extraction with minimal effort would.
Thoughtful people who want to get things done recognize that other people's time is a scarce resource that should be allocated deliberately, not routinely.
No, that's not it; you can both understand how scarce time is as a resource and still accurately believe spending it with others is more productive than spending it alone, depending on the work (and software engineering falls into the "time more productively spent together" set).
Periodicity is an arbitrary line upon which to draw acceptability, so when one draws it there's usually a reason other than, "I want to maximize effectiveness."
So many folks are completely disconnected from the performance of their group (whatever structure that group takes), that stuff like this starts to sound appealing.
Nobody who wants to get things done (that actually benefit the group) would advocate for not collaborating with other members of the group, but folks who want to maximize extraction with minimal effort would.