Except cars were faster than horses, while audio or video content is much slower than reading.

Cars also have legs while audio doesn't, a point which is equally irrelevant. If people don't need to read, they don't need to read, and no matter how much a random Internet commenter wants them to need it, it won't change anything.

Skills atrophy for a reason. It's fine to let them. You may as well be lamenting the lost art of long division.

> Cars also have legs while audio doesn't, a point which is equally irrelevant.

That's what a LLM would say :)

I'm sure an LLM wouldn't say anything as inane as that :P

You can multitask with audio content, so you can consume content when you can't sit down to read. And you can even potentially consume more volume like on a long daily commute.

It's not the case that it's worse.