I will say, my wife and I both volunteered to teach online for a full year during the pandemic, which means we both got to work from home 3 or 4 days a week (we had to teach from empty classrooms in our schools the other days, when we had recess duty responsibilities). 

My wife taught a virtual kindergarten class, and having observed her, how she did it, and what she did, I sincerely think she should have been hired to instruct other teachers on how to teach kindergarten virtually, because she was fantastic.

I taught a 7th grade class virtually and I sincerely believe they got as good an education that year as they would have if they were in the regular classroom. The evidence is purely anecdotal, but one of my virtual students won an award as one of the Top 8 students in our entire school board (90,000 students!) when she graduated high school. But I think for most kids, the virtual learning years were absolute and total wastes. 

From my experience I think the attachment to screens is doing major damage to our ability to properly communicate. I see it in my own extended family, where people can't seem to leave their phones alone in a social gathering. Whatever the phones are telling them, it's more important than what is actually happening in person. It's very frustrating.

I went to dinner recently and watched a large gathering of people sit down. One couple had an approx one year old kid. They immediately handed the child a screen and proceeded to sit down and enjoy their companions. The group did not use their phones, which was great. However, the kid was glued to the screen the entire time. I told my wife that it was a shame that the baby was missing out on picking up a huge amount of social skills by having it's face in a screen while everyone else was socializing. The baby was good the entire time, but missed out on learning in order to make dinner more convenient. 

A lot of my students have unlimited screen time and keep their devices in their bedrooms.

I agree that screens have had a huge impact on an entire generation. We older people prefer to interact in person, Young people today (under 30) mostly prefer to interact with screens. I think this is a greater impact than the pandemic shutdown, though that didn't help.

Kids need to be taught how to interact with each other appropriately. They aren't going to just "get it" themselves. And this gives schools one more thing to add to the list of stuff we need to teach.

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Nobody seems to know how to handwrite in cursive anymore.