I'm a "keyboard player" as you put it.
Next time you want cancer treatment, let me know how critical, or non-critical, my job is when you need results.
I worked in a scientific research organization during Covid. If I wasn’t pounding away all day ordering necessary and often very specific and esoteric supplies (and knowing from years of experience where to get the right things) everything would have stalled. I did it just fine from home.
The downside for me was that I really liked the folks I worked with, and missed seeing them every day...