Could there be a case for more technology leading to worse outcomes?

We have a lot of iPhones around the house. The oldest is an original SE, whose screen could be described as a GI Joe widescreen. We also have every model from 11 to 16. We had an iPhone 10, but it died under such mysterious circumstances that even Apple said that they had no clue as to what happened to it. I have the heaviest iPhone ever produced, namely the iPhone 14 Pro Max. When I put it in my shirt pocket, I spend the whole day bent over looking at my shoes. There is no question that as you go up the iPhone ladder, the devices have more features, stronger batteries, get thinner, and recently have become much lighter. As Apple and all tech companies are under massive pressure to improve their products, they often cannot stop to evaluate if all progress leads forward.

The old SE, which no longer is supported for iOS updates, has a very simple feature that I like. In order to make me and my bed part company around 4:30 in the morning, I set multiple alarms. When you set an alarm on the SE, you get a little alarm icon in the upper corner of the phone. When all alarms have been disabled, said icon vanishes. The newer models, like the 12 and 14, do not have this feature: one has to go into the alarm app to see if there is still one or more active alarms. So when I get out of bed and wish to know if I have left any alarms that might awaken my sleeping wife, I can get the information with a glance from the SE; the other device that I set in parallel requires more effort. Is that progress?

We know that in most places in the world, elections are dunderhead prehistoric: a photo ID, a paper ballot, and hand counting immediately after the election. The U.S., the land of high tech, has employed voting machines in many locations. This is what we call progress! A........

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