is a luxury many don’t have, at least not the way it was.
I understand your point but friendship was never a luxury, it was the one thing that was available to all, no matter their social status and income.
What it was the repetition of actually meeting other people and spending enough time with them, learning to know them. That was also what helped us all learn to... socialize outside of the 'close family bound'.
At least as important, and obviously in such short supply nowadays, it also taught us to accept as something OK that our friends needed not to be perfect, and neither did we had to be perfect.
The exact things screens seem to have taken away from younger gens. A real shit deal for those kids, in my humble opinion