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> In the near past and for millennia, humans spent most if not their entire lives in one place, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I don't think that's true, maybe just leisure travel is cheaper in the last hundred years so its more common. There was movement to the americas, westward expansion in the us. Europe immigration movements. large wars. pilgrimages

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Staying in a single location became possible for humanity only with the advent of agriculture.

Before domestication, they had to follow the game animals around on their migrations, travel to find the edible plants and fruits, etc.

Even once horse, goats, and cattle were domesticated for their meat, milk, and fur (note this is separate from agricultural cultivation), humans had to roam in really large areas, from winter grazing grounds to summer grazing grounds as still well as following the game animals around.

I think traveling is a very ingrained behavior in humanity.

Your average Roman circa 250 AD lived farther from their place of birth than your average American today.

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