The lie of the "Third Place"

"Third Place" as a term and concept has always felt weird to me. It feels it's ignoring either the workers at said place or ignoring the people living there in the case of a home-shop or squat.

The concept is a place where it's not home or an extension of one, and not a workplace.

Bars, Cafés, Gyms, Bookstores, Theaters are places made by workers, and the other people are at least assumed or required to be consumers. For parks, those are maintained either like a shared garden or by professionals, and you might even have a guardian living there.

Hackerspaces are pretty much shared workshops for geeks like me, with a bit of cybercafe legacy in some cases. I'd be surprised if any couldn't be described as either extension of work, or extension of home, or a mix of both depending on the person going there.

As the concept of "third place" has become more popular, several coworking office spaces have embraced this concept as the basis of their interior design.

Wikipedia English, Third Place

That should really highlight how utterly meaningless the concept is if what's literally an office space can just copy the interior design.

So, Third Place? It's a workplace that doesn't looks like an office, or a shared extension of the home.
Or maybe something like abandoned/nearly-untouched place like some forests or caves but I don't see the city-dwellers that are using the term "Third Place" accepting that.