Did we go back to thinking we wanted to be less connected to the world around us, and we're looking for a $3k device to help us do that? I thought maybe society

Did we go back to thinking we wanted to be less connected to the world around us, and we're looking for a $3k device to help us do that? I thought maybe society was admitting there are major, inadequately examined problems with device addiction, social alienation, mental health, and so on. I guess maybe we were just in a lull between product launches, and I mistook that silence for introspection. My bad.