I use Zoom, I have BIAB, I have a DAW, I use the internet. None of that comes close to live work with live musicians. Those things are useful but just a tool.

The interactions that happen on stage or in a studio can not be replaced with software. Well...that's my take but there is also a world of people who live vicariously through their cell and TV, evidently preferring that to any kind of live interaction.

There are reasons other than the pandemic that we don't play music like we use too.
Bob alluded to several.

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”