We're all spread out across our city and getting together for in-person games was always a pain. Pre-pandemic we played maybe once a month on average, though our games usually ended up being at least 4-8 hours at a time. Since the pandemic when we switched over to online, we're playing weekly in a consistently 2hr game. I actually prefer how it is now, I like the smaller chunks of time and I like not having to always drive over to others' houses. It does take a bit more prep work for whomever is GMing, since alot of us tend towards battlemaps, but we've also done a bit of theatre of the mind as well.

I honestly don't care to go back to live games, maybe it'd be fine for one-off substitutions of our normal weekly games, but with kids it's a huge hassle to organize for those long games and honestly, I just don't know that I have the patience to hang around that long for games anymore. The other people I game with tend to be horrible about timing and will setup ridiculously long combat encounters, such that we're spending a full 6 hours on a combat session because they thought us going up against like 30 guys would be a quick fight. And of course the enemies NEVER run away, they will always fight to the last man for the vaguest of reasons.