My wife does the exact same thing with those home reno shows on HGTV, they're on from like 6pm to 10pm every night while she scrolls her phone and she couldn't tell you the name of a single couple from any episode. But here's the thing I keep noticing, it's everywhere now, not just TV. I'll be at a restaurant and look around and half the tables are on their phones while the food sits there, or I'm at a red light and the guy next to me is watching a video. We've all kind of agreed that being fully present for one thing is too much to ask, so we just stack stuff on top of each other and call it relaxing. The part that gets me is your sister wasn't even trying to be mean, she probably really believes that's what TV is for now, just something to fill the quiet. So when you sit down with your coffee and actually watch your show, you're doing something that's almost becoming rare, and that's probably why it stung, because it felt like she was saying that kind of attention doesn't matter anymore.