it would, but people who design offices are buzzword lemmings who follow trends and don't care about worker productivity objectively.

my first office had big tall cubes and it was gloriously quiet. we are now on our third office, but since only like 20 people come in on any day, it's much quieter than having 50-80 people, half of whom are blabbing with each other or on the phone and everyone in 30 ft of them can hear their convo.