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I'm not entirely sure how you think looking at an image on a computer screen compensates for the experience of doing observations with your own eyes.

There are plenty of good pictures on wikipedia already, do looking at those compare to going out on a clear night and looking at the stars yourself?

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A LEO satellite constellation will absolutely not prevent you from looking into the night sky with a telescope and seeing stars.

The dead of night will be fine. But during (astronomical) twilight, the time when you are most likely awake and looking up, it will have ugly extra dots.

What makes a dot ugly?

Also I'm sorry but I really, really don't care about a hobby if it gets in the way of the progress of the entire human race.

Imagine if a painter in Greece in some century BC convinced his fellow Grecians that building a harbor in the cove by their town was a bad idea because it ruined his paintings of the cove. How was he supposed to look at the marine life if you stuck wood and industry in the water???

This. Every change has some negative effect. The question is whether the net effect is positive or negative.

"Seeing a star" is a low bar to pass, especially if you get a telescope to help you.

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