There's no substitute to internet, so we can't compare it to anything.
Wrong, there are inferior substitutes. It's called the post office lol. Yes, it lacks a lot of "features", that's the point.
What you're saying is like saying walking and driving can't be compared. Yes they can, and walking is clearly an inferior mode of transportation.
You have been saying this nonstop. What metric do you have to determine this? Just popularity? This is your personal bias speaking.
These things have already been measured in labs. It's not rocket science. When you see vibrant colours it causes certain parts of your brain to "light up". When you see moving vibrant colours your brain will obviously "light up" even more because it's engaging even more of your brains capabilities. Add in sound and even more of your brain is engaged.
This is why a movie will always be a more stimulating and enjoyable experience than reading the book for that movie. Whatever your brain can simulate in your imagination will not come close to what can be simulated in modern day cinema.
Movies literally just take the workload that would be on your brain when you read and does all of the simulations for you. So now your brain can just relax and take it all in, no effort required. It's effortless entertainment and that makes you enjoy it more.
Your comparison is flawed from the start, it has literally 0 correlation. You are comparing utilities to entertainment. You can upgrade a PC so that it may be more usefull. There's no "upgrading" entertaiment. Because people consume them all nontheless.
People still go to comedic shows, even if we already have youtube, movies. People still read books, even if we have anime.
There's no "better" entertainment. There's just entertaiment, and no entertaiment. If someone dosn't try a medium of "entertaiment" then he or she cannot claim that said entertaiment is good or bad. Because they did not try to be "entertained".
By your logic why aren't we making "black and white" movies anymore?
Why aren't we using inferior graphics in games anymore?
Why is graphics becoming more and more "photo-realistic", why didn't we stick to PS2 God of War tier graphics? lol
You can believe whatever you want, but there's clearly superior forms of entertainment that stimulate your brain more and are more visually appealing.
Just like there are foods that stimulate your palate more and are more appealing in the sense of taste.
There's no "upgrading" entertaiment. Because people consume them all nontheless.
It's like you're saying "food is food, there's no upgrade". That's stupid and obviously false.
If I could eat Lasagna in place of mac and cheese I'd never eat mac and cheese again in life, and I'd only eat Lasagna as it's substitute.
If I could eat pizza in place of bread and cheese slice sandwich I'd never eat bread and cheese again in life, and I'd only eat pizza as it's substitute.
If i could eat a subway style sandwich with all the sauces and veggies I want in place of some dry simple lettuce + tomato + cheese + meat sandwich, I'd never eat the simple sandwich again in life, and I'd only eat the subway style sandwich as it's substitute.
Etc, etc, etc.
People don't just "eat everything nonetheless". Some things without a doubt taste better than others, some things are just superior alternatives, and if we all had the choice to permanently swap out certain foods for the superior alternative, we'd never go back to eating the inferior one.
When people become wealthy they even stop eating at certain places and only eat at certain high tier restaurants, and only cook specific meals. You won't see a millionaire eating a bread and butter sandwich
. Like come on dude lol, I can't even eat that shit anymore and I'm broke, I've eaten too much good shit to even be able to tolerate the shit I ate when I was like 10 and super broke.
You've probably sent a mail through the post office atleast once in your life. Would you even bother doing that now since you have access to text messaging, email, mobile phone calls, etc?
How ironic would it be if you never even sent a post mail before, that would actually add to my point I mention below about children not reading books and each generation reading less. Since you've always had access to email you won't even bother using an inferior method of messaging like post mail, because it's just inferior.
BUT LESS AND LESS PEOPLE READ BOOKS AT EACH GENERATION
NOW ASK YOURSELF, WHY IS THAT?
Why would older people be complaining about how reading books isn't common anymore if that wasn't happening?
People still read books because they "started off" with those inferior forms of entertainment and are "used to it".
Whereas young children today will start off playing video games with photo-realistic graphics, watching HD movies, etc.
This is why when you throw a book at the average 13 year old today they won't even bother unless forced, because in comparison to what they've already been exposed to in their youth,
BOOKS CAN'T COMPETE.
Vegeratians all over the world are dead now? And there is people that do not enjoy eating vegetables? That's a bold claim to make.
I said
SOME vegetables are an acquired taste, can you not read?
But ice cream is definitely more appealing to everyones taste buds in comparison to any vegetable. That's not even debatable. Your body is designed to give you a more favorable response to those amounts of sugar (the sensation of "sweetness").
I'm really entertained with your post about how because you don't enjoy reading LN(don't even know if you tried even) they are shitty entertaiment.
It's not specific to light novels, it's novels period, heck it's reading period. Reading is one of the most boring things in existence. It's literally you moving your eyes across something, line by line, then interpreting, then trying to understand, etc. Your brain is so busy decoding that there's very little room to be "entertained".
Either way the original purpose of writing and books wasn't for entertainment anyways, it was for storing and sharing information. It was never really supposed to be a medium for entertainment, so no wonder it isn't effective in that regard, it's not supposed to be.
One episode of an action anime probably produces more stimulation to the sensors in your brain than reading 10 novels, the mediums just aren't comparable lol.
Like dude, alright you don't like them so be it. Why have this nonsensical debate?
Why not?