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You know, maybe my grandparents had it right.
It is weird that computers give so little sensory feedback for what they're doing. Flashlights go click. Cassette decks go clack-vrrrr. Whiteboards go squeek-squeek. Screen sharing goes... nothing, just a small mostly white rectangle on top of my much bigger rectangle until a disembodied, 4 kHz-wide simulacrum of someone's voice from halfway around the world says "yeah we see your screen". Unnatural is what it is.
They used to give more feedback inadvertently, loud floopy drives, modem noises, all that. Then they got earily quiet and still.
Then Apple spent many millions restoring haptic feedback to their trackpad to create the illusion it was still mechanical when it is not.
I leave the conclusion here as an exercise for the reader.