The technology does not gift you associated culture, and it's worth knowing that even far outside this business because it applies everywhere.

Yes a technology can be enabling, but, it isn't enough to inculcate the desired culture, that has to come from somewhere else. You can't "sustain" something which does not exist.

Actually WG21 ("The C++ Language Committee") illustrates this well in another way. When WG21 was created it was after the Mother Of All Demos, and so after video conferencing exists as an idea, but to be fair to them it was not really practical at the scale needed for WG21 processes at that time. When C++ 98 shipped it was just about practical, although most ordinary people would have needed to travel to some place with appropriate equipment. By this point the IETF is routinely but not yet universally using such technology.

By the time C++ 11 shipped, I have an ordinary job where I worked full time from home, travelling to a physical location only once or twice per month because video conferencing is now such a mudane and ordinary capability as to go unremarked.

Only since the COVID-19 pandemic has WG21 finally adopted the option for attendance without flying around the world several times per year. The technology to do this had existed for decades, but the culture did not exist.