> It's a failure of modern western society IMHO where we see people actually needing sleep as "lazy", rather than a requirement to actually be their best.
another one is that we let the morning people set the rules. If your butt isn't in a chair at 8am cranking out widgets you're "lazy" but the morning people can go home and be in bed at 8pm and they're virtuous and hardworking.
Our society has an implicit bias in favor of the morning people and against the evening people. And I think that amplifies a lot of the "people who need sleep" problems because it's not just needing sleep in general, your sleep patterns had better align to the prevailing social norm too. If you'd rather live 10-7 instead of 8-5... tough shit. And even remote jobs sometimes have meetings/etc that you can't avoid.
One of the interesting ideas about autism is the "night owl" tendency may have been socially desirable in the past... when your life is on the line, it's good to have someone who can reliably be awake all night and focus on small details that might signal danger. But now it's maladaptive since everything runs 8-5 and we are in considerably less danger of being eaten by predators.
(it is unnecessary to medicalize everything, even if it's just that some people prefer to work later, that should be enough. But there seems to be some basis to the connections between autism and sleep problems, something like 80% of asperger's diagnosees have comorbid sleep problems. That seems like the kind of link you really don't see that often or strongly.)