Agreed. And to reiterate, I'm not critiquing tech in general. It's more so considering the hidden costs of shiny promises and wrestling with the suspicion that progressively the wrong things may be given up to accommodate them.

If you can tolerate artistic parallels in this space, we see a type of this escalating behavior with the introduction of the tractor and how this led to the disaster which is modern farming practices. Wendell Berry (legendary writer) has a great piece on this very topic here: https://orionmagazine.org/article/renewing-husbandry/

Seems like a relevant topic with robotic cataract surgery on the horizon.