Your analogies are invalid. Those are actions which were enabled by new technologies and could not be performed before such technologies existed. This article,

Your analogies are invalid. Those are actions which were enabled by new technologies and could not be performed before such technologies existed. This article, however, is talking about actions which have not been made possible by new technology. Rather, they are actions that were possible before such technology existed but are being made arbitrarily harder or even impossible to perform without some very specific consumer products. This is not technology enabling new features — it is technology being used to excuse a regression of features.