That really only works with a mature and experienced team, which is great when you have one.

Standups are ok if they stay fast and they are at the start or end of a day. The forced sync points are also more important in remote settings. This is especially true for new or junior employees.

Eliminating time zones doesn’t make scheduling meetings easier it just changes the language. Instead of figuring out what time it is elsewhere you have to remember what normal working hours are, Europe, US, and Japan aren’t all going to be available 9-5 UTC. It’s just as easy to suggest a meeting at functionally midnight without time zones.

You are roughly a decade late. Computers have been grading essays for a long time. The mcat for example hasn’t had human grading in about that long.

Time is annoying, but it’s mostly solved. The problem is people don’t use the solutions and make their own things that don’t actually work.

There is, but your dif tool would have to be language aware and likely be slower to show difs.

Works great when you know what your doing before you start. That never actually happens in real life though.