You do you, but lets say I don't agree with what you say at all. Quality of life and all. Since I do both sides its easy to compare short and long term effects and impact on quality of life and happiness, plus its trivial to look around and see exactly same stuff repeating all over with literally everybody.
Suffice to say parent is correct, and you are not.
Outside, right now, people stay on screens all the time. It's the same stuff. Why even bother?
Humans plan ahead. We look towards the future and the past. Not all the time, but a lot of the time.
This carpe diem stuff doesn't seem like the right way to approach the problem given our current technological society.
Also, I'm not gonna party just because someone told me to.