Ibuprofen reduces pain. It is also not a solution, especially when that pain has a solvable underlying cause.

What worries me is that many people are becoming lonely because we’re losing the habits and skill sets needed to form and maintain meaningful relationships.

Given everything we know about the importance of social connection to many facets of human well-being, unless something like this is used explicitly to rebuild those skills and to subsequently form real connections, tools like this seem likely to worsen the problem in the long run.