I think your statement would be completely appropriate if we were talking about something like a futuristic device like a 'neural lace' that enabled you to inpu

I think your statement would be completely appropriate if we were talking about something like a futuristic device like a 'neural lace' that enabled you to input using your brain at an extremely high rate and with minimal to no effort. Calculators and abacuses do the exact same thing, but calculators enable it to be done vastly more quickly and easily. In this case touch screens are simply vastly inferior for the vast majority of all tasks. At best, they're something different. At worst, they're a textbook example of artificial demand [1] for a mediocre technology driven by highly effective marketing. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_demand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_demand