Life gets better with technology?

In figurative terms, we are taking mountains and making them into hills. We make them that way by using technology. In this terminology, the mountains or hills are challenges that we face in life. They are essentially obstacles. But look, we don't have to make hills from mountains, even if we're talking about the problems that plague our life. In the past, there were many more mountains, but now we find ourselves in a world that is more flat. What do I mean exactly? I'm trying to get the point across that we are relying on technology to make our lives go easier. And taller problems might be more difficult to conquer, but at the end of the day, does it really matter how tall our problems are? After all, it is more rewarding to conquer a mountain than it is a hill, is it not? This is the logic that I'm trying to get across; bigger problems that we could otherwise not have solved using technology would potentially lead to a life that's more rewarding! At times, I wonder what it would have been like to live in the distant past; more primitive methods to overcoming life's issues, but once an issue is solved, you might very well gain more satisfaction than what you would gain had you solved the problem using technology. Why must we strive so much to gain satisfaction this way? Is time and/or the financial aspect of life really that important? Why do we seem to be losing our roots in the more primitive world, or lifestyle? Why do we as a society seem to obsessed over technology to such a high level of degree? These kinds of questions are downright mind boggling to me. I want to return to the old way of doing things also because it brings some interesting change to this life of mine.