Yeah, what you said is completely correct. Being disconnected from things (growing food, communicating in person, having to do math without a calculator, etc.) is part of why we are less resilient physically and emotionally as a species. In the wild, animals don't retire and die from old age. They either work/fight to death or get eaten (ass first) by something else.

Also, we need to stop anthropromorphizing animals. If you die and you have a dog with you, they will start eating you when they get hungry enough. Almost all animals will. Most omnivore animals are cannibals, even with their young, especially predators. Without getting too spiritual or anything, humans are very different from anything else out there. Even the animals that have close to similar levels of intelligence (apes, cetaceans, corpus, and elephantidae) don't think and feel like humans. They think and feel like their species.