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It occasionally produces art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

EDIT: Mr. Burnham is vintage 1990, so he's a bit too old to have been weaned onto it

Forgot to add: live streaming services as well.

Twitch. Whatever Microsoft’s version was called at the time. And YT Live.

Probably better of a nanny than YT vods.

Replaced the TV from the 80s and 90s.

Not quite. There was 1 TV in the median household in the 80s and 90s, which made TV a contested common resource from one point of view and a focal point of social gathering from another point of view.

The median American household today has >1 internet-enabled screens, many children from the age of 5-7 have their own "personal device".

90s TV at least had physical boundaries on its use. Most people couldn't watch TV in the bathroom for example. Phones and the Internet can be used anywhere at this point.