I can certainly attest to these effects, even as a person whose job involves keeping up with a lot of television. With the amount of programming available before me, the mere act of watching TV recently began to feel impossible. Just looking at my queue was exhausting, and I imagine that I’m not alone in feeling this way—as in, burned-out from the decision fatigue caused by scrolling through ever-expanding libraries, and from spending too many hours trying to make headway on what I’d fallen behind on, only to forget plot points the next day. Guilt crept in whenever I fell down low-stakes YouTube rabbit holes instead of using that time to catch up on a show; panic rose when I realized that my habits were likely encouraging the reported practice of rewriting scripts to accommodate people’s shortened attention spans.