It's amazing we even survived for hundreds of thousands of years before this

Exactly, then once you wash your hands, they'll be clean, so it doesn't matter if the soap dispenser is dirty

... are stupid

I feel like the technology and the convenience it has created has made us lazier and dumber over the years.

i'll buy lazier, but not dumber, i mean we can be dumber at specific tasks, but that is because we have learned to do other things instead.