FloatHeadPhysics does a really good job of explaining these kinds of things https://youtu.be/TJmgKdc7H34
"Doing stuff" includes observing things because of the light travel distance, but also biological processes, which involve eg. electrons moving from one atom to another.
I didn't watched the linked video here (more relevant perhaps), but this was the one for me: https://youtu.be/Vitf8YaVXhc