Take a look at this thread here [0], see how people are either stuck in a sense of either "it's not possible to live without using WhatsApp. Resistance is futile" or "Apple does everything I need to live a happy and peaceful life".
The "whole thing" is a mess of Surveillance Capitalism that serves no one but the elites, who is shaped to keep us in a constant state of anxiety and fear to try anything different and with enough energy to be able to do nothing but consume the crap they want us to consume.
Yes, it's very easy to cherry pick one product and say "I can live without it".
The important question is: "can society at large use the web without being forced to use products that exploit their data and/or locks them into rent-seeking vendors?"
The "whole thing" is a mess of Surveillance Capitalism that serves no one but the elites, who is shaped to keep us in a constant state of anxiety and fear to try anything different and with enough energy to be able to do nothing but consume the crap they want us to consume.
Surely we can do better than that. We have to.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31807783