Reading my first post on your account, @honeydue, this stood out to me:
"... as someone who has made it. It doesn't seem like these are worthwhile trades to me, but maybe I just don't know what's good."
"It just seems incredibly depressing to me that for the sake of apparent "convenience", we'd exchange a walk, life, nature reemerging, the potential of running into someone new for the first time, trying different things, or just, you know, living."
From your well-worded description of the contrast between two very different views of what is important and what is not, I think you have the right perspective.
"It was all industrial gray and soulless."
Yes, indeed. We can argue the world is what we choose to make it, but why not give yourself a fighting chance and make better decisions? We are, after all, free to choose. We are not free, however, to choose the consequences.
Thanks for providing this glimpse into the decisions you are making. They are surely healthier long-term.