It is my feeling that some of the conspicuous behaviors of people in positions of influence and monetary wealth do, in fact, rob the practitioner of the small joys of life won through small sacrifice. I do not envy the man who gains hedonic leisure at the expense of the opportunity to elevate a mundane message into a medium for a modicum of joy, and potential human connection. I love tending my garden, and trimming the weeds in our sidewalk.
If smearing were adopted as standard, the "seconds," "minutes," and "hours" appearing in timestamps would no longer correspond to literal seconds minutes, and hours of duration, even in principle. That seems very misleading and bad.