Agreed. There are a lot of crappy, manipulative, less than ideal partners who lose their effectiveness and raison d'etre with technology and other forms of sat

Agreed. There are a lot of crappy, manipulative, less than ideal partners who lose their effectiveness and raison d'etre with technology and other forms of satisfaction (sex bots, conversation bots, etc.). It's easy to see why some complain about their substitutability for something/someone better as they don't want to do the work.