it's literally a wondrous technology that lets you instantly synchronously talk with another person(s)
This is how it felt before cell phones and VoIP. I hate phone calls now because of everything that has changed since then.
The latency on any call I have to anyone anywhere is now 2x as much as it was when I would call California from the East Coast in the early 2000's.
When my phone used to ring it was either someone who wants to talk to me, or to someone I live with. Or they mis-dialed the local theatre that had a similar number and that was fun, too.
My phone doesn't even ring half the time people call me now, it goes straight to voicemail with no explanation.
The Telephone is still great, but we destroyed The Telephone and replaced it with some awful changeling, is my contention.
also the way people talk on the phone has changed.
not to mention that computers fail so much in business, medicine, school, and bureaucracy enough, with people who don't know how to troubleshoot it, that any call could last 2-90 minutes.
not to mention the audio quality getting bad enough that I have to dedicate all my focus to listening.
it is not the phone that causes the problem, but what the phone is used for. especially when you consider that phone time not costing money anymore means people treat it as a chat medium regardless of actual goal post like 2005
