Everyone is wrong about the Metaverse

Tech people love to talk about how everyone in the world at all times are living tech lives, forgetting all the people that have a balanced relationship with technology and place value on real world experiences.

I am someone who has had an imbalanced relationship with technology and am becoming happier and healthier limiting my engagement and placing focus on real world relationships, activities and experiences over virtual ones. It will be a veeeeeery long time until VR can simulate the sensory experience of eating a good meal, and even then such an experience would have little benefit over the real thing. Perhaps letting someone who medically has no sense of taste experience a simulacrum of the pleasure is a worth aspiration, but saying the virtual world will become more meaningful than the real one is in my view dystopian at best. I am thoroughly hoping for a tech backlash and focus on real world community and friendships.