The flip side of this is that society has built conspicuous reward mechanisms for doing things that don’t actually suit our brains very well (reading vs. watchi

The flip side of this is that society has built conspicuous reward mechanisms for doing things that don’t actually suit our brains very well (reading vs. watching/listening, “thoughtful” classical music vs. Drum-heavy pop music, etc.) because otherwise no one would do those things and that would have negative societal consequences. Now, the Internet is only focused on making content that fits our brains and people who grew up benefiting from those conspicuous rewards miss those rewards (but not enough to put in the work to get them now that there’s a much more fun alternative). It really comes down to the idea that there is no “good” or “natural” thing for humans to do from an objective standpoint. Evolution is in many ways a manifest of preference.