Versions of this comment were common when radio first was introduced. And television. Etc. It's fine to feel nostalgia for some aspects of past interaction of course, but a mistake to read too much into it. Generally an area to be aware of recency bias.
I’m afraid that’s just a meme. Each of these have tradeoffs. It’s not nostalgia to want to take the other side. You’ve probably encountered the popular movement to not watch television, and terrestrial radio is in decline. Podcasts are a sort of modern radio equivalent and there is plenty written about the downsides of filling too much time with them. Boredom and idle thought are recognized by physiological and psychological experts to have value.
There is certainly value to resiliency and judiciously making the most advantage of each new trend in communication, however.
