Waiting for a letter made people read it ten times when it came. Instant is convenient. Waiting made it matter.

Effort and delay in getting something change how much attention it receives once it arrives. When a message was expensive and slow it got read carefully, and when it costs nothing it gets skimmed, which is a fact about how attention works rather than a complaint about anyone. Abundance is genuinely useful and it also dilutes.

Choose a few things to make slower or rarer on purpose, a long letter, a call instead of a thread, one photo instead of forty. Give those your whole attention when they land. Scarcity is something you can reintroduce deliberately.