For thousands of years, man has invented technology to ameliorate the petty pains and discomforts of his life. It would be an insult not to use it.
Well, you know –
Sometimes technologies — and I am the one who loves technologies! — but sometimes they make us even more miserable. And not all inventions are survived the time. Sometimes, oftentimes, we don’t need something they invented very long ago, to ameliorate, as you say, their discomforts.
We may just have our own discomforts, you know. And not all the solutions of the yestercenturies are suitable these days.
Apart from that, yeah, some technologies do help indeed!