Yea. It's weird. However, the discussion on the matter had gone a bit hyperbolic imo.
I think some of the desire to use text based communication over voice calls speaks to how overloaded and busy many people are.
Saylor said it best : the road to serfdom is to work harder for a currency that continues to be debased.
So people are slammed trying to make ends meet and they don't always have time to talk on the phone due to being locked up in wage slavery.
This is to completely overlook the genuine efficiency benefit of async communications