You can send money easily with a few taps in the USA also.

I haven’t written a paper check to a landlord in over 15 years (but I had to do the money bags thing for a few years in China). Heck, even if they don’t have online payments setu, you can usually just auto send them the money as a payee (I do this with my daycare). It’s annoying when I do need to use a paper check once or twice a year, I just go to the bank for a temp check (which is the only time I visit a bank branch also).

I feel like that's situational. I live in very flyover rural US, and the only time I use a check is to pay for my electric and internet, even though the option is there for electronic payments. I only do that because the companies are awful and I'm trying to inconvenience them in a small way. And there are definitely ways to pay other people via electronics.

That sounds like more like your landlord is antiquated, not banks. Not only does Venmo exist as an all-inclusive payment option, every major bank (i.e. not a local one with <15 branches) I'm aware of supports or provides a similar service like Zelle which is used by Bank of America, TD Bank, and others. I'm able to live my life almost entirely independent of banking at a physical location with the rare exceptions being obtaining a cashier's check and withdrawing or depositing large sums of money. There are regulatory/legal hurdles surrounding daily maximum transfer, withdrawl, and deposit amounts as well as what kind of reporting is required for really large sums (like the check you get at closing when you sell your home for example) but this is also the case everywhere else in the 1st world AFAIK.