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People have been worried about this since TV was invented.

And we went from 30 minute TV shows on global/national/local channels to 30 seconds clips on finely tuned personal feeds with granular data from billions of users optimizing for watchtime.

I know it's a fear as old as books, but it's hard to ignore the different paradigm that the Internet brought to the table.

It seems evident to me that they were right to worry so, the TV appears to have been a net negative.

Is it more harmful? Contrary to popular belief, attention span is not declining (there is not even a singular value for attention span, it is dependent on activity). That we just can’t enjoy long-running ads anymore is just the media becoming more efficient/better at cuts. At least, according to most researchers: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790.amp

I like this feature idea