Agreed. Never been a full nomad, as I always had my own base in Berlin, but I’ve been around enough of them (and wrote reports about it) long enough to see it.
Digital Nomadism hasn’t solved the problem of rootlessness. If you’re nomadic long enough, you risk ending up with a very odd kind of depression. It’s also a different way of getting stuck on the same thing. Most nomads I know tend to stay longer and longer in a place, and to go back to that place eventually.
I’m still a huge fan of it, and I think that remote work and work from anywhere is the only way forward for most intellectual workers.
Yet, I can see the problem more clearly now that I’ve forcefully stayed put for two years, then when I was kind of compulsively traveling.
Nonetheless I write this while on a 2.5 months workation break in Southern Europe to flee from Berlin’s gray winter (which has a devastating effect on anyone’s mood).