easiest to understand thread ever "normies largely see hobbies and art as purely instrumental tools for socializing, rather than as ends in and of themselves" which is obviously true and hit dogs are holler in the quotes about how min is Weird for saying "socializing is le bad"
It's because they're Normies, and therefore prioritize Socializing over anything else. It couldn't have been abandoned after 2020, because COVID forced all normies to curb their IRL socializing, driving them into subcultural hobby burrows to do it instead, like an infestation.