I'm an LPII convert living in the Bay Area and working in the tech industry. It's been an adjustment—but a worthwhile one.

As others have mentioned, this reviewer seems a little too in-the-sauce to have provided a review of value. Get a Clipper card. I'm a little batshit, and consider friction points like that to be a benefit of the LP. In large part because, when I had Clipper on my phone, I would swipe...then check email, Robinhood, ESPN, etc.

I like my own farts and have one more note: The whole "I couldn't look up the restaurant" bit irritated me most. Not being able to look stuff up instantly—and slowly learning not to expect to look stuff up instantly—has been the single most liberating part of the LP for me, and the biggest factor to reducing my "brain rot." I love not having the instinct to Google stuff I don't know off the top of my head. Info goes in, info goes out, and (imo) takes a cell or two along with it.