walking over to your neighbors and asking to borrow their wrench.

This is exactly the kind of thing that could be easily addressed via a text message. "Hey do you have a wrench I can borrow?" That's a Yes/No question. Nothing to go back and forth over. If you want to chit chat you can do so when they bring it over.

Sure you could text, but for god sakes man, where’s your humanity?

Where's your humanity? By calling someone you are demanding their attention NOW. Even if they don't intend to answer, their phone ringing for 30 seconds is annoying and distracting. Just hearing the damn thing go off elevates my stress level. As opposed to a text or e-mail they can respond to at their convenience and only gives them a simple notification. Expecting someone to drop everything to address your needs instantly is more anti-social than respecting that they may be busy right now and send a text instead. I was raised to be respectful of others' time when asking someone for something.

I can’t help but think that inherently something is wrong.

There is. Talking on the phone has been turned into a miserable experience 90% of the time. We're sick and tired of dealing with people's bullshit at our shitty jobs all day and then getting spam calls when we're at home. Having to drop everything to deal with a phone call is annoying and we don't want more of it. There's nothing "inhuman" about being stressed out and tired. There's about 6 people on this planet I enjoy speaking to and the odds that it's one of them calling when my phone rings are next to 0.