Maybe the trend in UX/UI design towards making things easier to use is caught in a kind of anti-ethics. Things that resist us, as in the joke philosophy of Resistentialism, are probably better at fostering presence, a sense of otherness while transparent usability fosters absence https://twitter.com/duncanreyburn/status/1349811057225846786

User-experience design tends to involve testing a thing's ease-of-use without asking the primary question of whether or not the thing should be designed in the first place. There doesn't need to be an app for everything; not all experiences have to be consumed by digital monsters

So, a crazy thought: maybe the days of dialup and endlessly stuck loading bars were better than fibre and 5G in some ways. At least the agony of waiting made a person think about whether or not it was even worth going online. This isn't the solution, just worth pondering.

User: “Let's do this!”

Dialup: “Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr k'ching k'ching k'ching tshchchchchchchch cch *ding *ding *ding.”

Loading bar: “You could be waiting a while. Maybe a few years. It's not clear at this point.”

User: “To hell with it, I'm not doing this.”