Yeah I hesitated to even put that line in my post as I knew it would elicit some disagreement. I come at it more from the perspective of how our society and culture has evolved.
I realize this is some philosophical, sociological stuff that may not resonate but....we have so few communal experiences today. We used to all watch the same TV shows, watch the same news shows, same movies. We knew all our neighbors, we'd know people from church, we all went to the same couple of schools. We'd all experience a commute, we'd see the same people in the lunch room. Etc. etc. We had tighter bonds as a culture.
Now we're much more divided - geographically people live farther from city centers and politically, well, that's obvious. I can't help but think that a lot of societal ills are a result of that division. As an example. depression and suicide have steadily risen for the last 20+ years across all demographics. Civility seems to be an afterthought now. Some of that is due to technology but some of it is because we just don't hang around each other as much.
No in-person jobs are not a panacea by any means but not having it is just one less thing to connect us. Just my two cents.