imagine we find out later that shifts in our socialisation isn't due to smartphones but some unknown factor that also affects intelligent animals...

Or imagine we find out later that shifts in our radio waves are also affecting intelligent animals!

(like bees?)

I think we just come to grips with humans being an awful, parasitic, and destructive species, even towards ourselves

hmmm check the mycelium

Well there are more microbes around us than there are stars in the universe. They survive without smart phones, intelligence, religion, society and stories that need to fit in a 3 inch chimp brain about the meaning of it all. One of them recently killed 6 million people. Life goes on.

The elephants are spending too much time confiding in Claude?

What a comforting thought, that killing off an intelligent species isn't really our fault.

Bit of an escapist fantasy, though.