Maybe not for them. Since they are so connected via the network, there maybe a higher level of consensus. Possible. You might be able say that for them living

Maybe not for them. Since they are so connected via the network, there maybe a higher level of consensus. Possible. You might be able say that for them living with technology might be unambiguously better. But when it is said as a simple statement by itself it appears a highly subjective opinion, or at least very dependent on the circumstances. Not really. Why would it have been obvious to them that the things on top are what the operator uses to see anything? A good point and a possibility, but the humans had been there for years. If they had had advanced technology of a different kind, that exposure to the humans technology would likely have let them start figuring out how the human's technology worked, even if they avoided it. Overall, I think the idea that they don't feel the kind separation from the planet that we do is the most plausible reason. That is certainly a possibility. I find it more likely that they simply were at the bow and error phase of technology and had not yet grown beyond it in any direction more likely.