These all seem like valuable, positive aspects of progress and increased efficiency to me. Waiting a year to eat another in-season fruit or vegetable is a bad

These all seem like valuable, positive aspects of progress and increased efficiency to me. Waiting a year to eat another in-season fruit or vegetable is a bad thing that we ought to use technology to solve. It’s not wholesome or contentment or whatever, it’s a bad, unproductive limitation. Apprenticeships often lead to servitude and heavily suppressed wages, more similar to indentured servants. It is not a glamorous or romanticized vision of steadily mastering a craft. All of your examples follow this pattern. It reads like Luddite anti-progress fantasy and glorification of past limitations like a sort of noble savage lie.