INB4 the primary consumer of the digital copies is creepy stalkers renting out Lucy Liu bots.

I get less questions talking about the bodies in my freezer than when I mention the bottle of Wasabi lube.

It's like printers and constant driver/connectivity issues; if a device isn't made by a computer or software company, but insists on acting like a piece of technology, it's going to work about as well as a McDonalds ice cream machine. Because competent IT and skilled post-release support teams are the first groups gutted of knowledge when a company has a new product to sell a few months later

I think part of it is necessities of the society.

A lot of the "leisure" activities associated with modern culture is because of material excess afforded by industrialized manufacturing and resource procurement. One worker can literally create thousands of times more product than they could then.

This means the time, labor, and materials of a crafts worker is MUCH more valuable, and thus less likely to be spent on "trinkets". That and, looking at society post-early agriculture, free time didnt really exist much for the majority of the human population, due to social hierarchies and labor demands.

That being said there are some civilizations that would enjoy a certain degree of material excess; usually due to a mass utilization of slaves in lieu of automation in industry (greeks being a prime european example).

Not to say your point has any less validity, just that for a lot of cultures it was literally a case of "ain't got time/money for that"

Eh, server/data size limits, limitations in accessible processor speed, infrastructure, power cords.

Tons of things would hard block an AI long before it became problematic, let alone apocalyptic