Preconfigured To Seek Convenience?

Walking on the treadmill last night I was in one of those meditative flow states. The ones where you're at total peace, and letting your mind wander and entertain itself. A random shower-thought emerged: are we just preconfigured to seek convenience? Entertaining the idea, I remembered early internet forums. To create a forum for a niche interest you had to do a little extra work, either using prebuilt software/coding it yourself and then rent some hosting. Nowadays you'd make a discord server and start sending out invites. In a similar fashion, we had the same thing happen with Facebook groups (before discord) replacing things like fansites. Outside the internet, we added a bunch of electronics and software to cars. Most modern cars will scream at us to change our oil after x miles/kilometers. Whereas before, we'd look at the odometer and decide if the old Honda deserves some fresh engine juice. Thirty minutes prior to getting on the treadmill I was doing some coding. The standard…