It's so much easier to take your laptop over to a senior colleague and ask them to help you debug something in person. There's much more friction to asking for a call, waiting for them to respond, sending them the invite, perhaps waiting for them to get to a phone room if they happen to be in the office, setting up screen sharing (with its minute and fuzzy type), and having to type things in yourself.
It’s harder because you (the one asking for help) first need to articulate your problem in a way that is understandable via text. So, I would say that’s an advantage for everyone: think first, then ask.
Usually, in the office is: poke first, then ask, then realize you actually didn’t even read the error message in the display.
Writing is harder than talking. In my experience, people who don’t care spending time writing properly, well, they usually don’t care about your time. Or perhaps it’s just me, since I’m a non-native English speaker, at work I re-read (and rewrite) what I write many times before hitting Send. More often than not, it’s in the rewriting of my own words where I find the solution to the problem I was about to ask (duck rubbing or something like that they call it)
