Funny enough, I would actually make the funny claim that AirPods, AirPods pros, noise canceling headphones are actually probably worse for disconnecting yourself from the environment, rather than something that covers up your eyeballs?
Your ears are sacred
House of the theory that actually, our ears are more primal than our eyes. Vision is critical, but actually… Assuming you want to maximize your hedonic pleasure, actually maybe voices and sound is actually more important?
For example, music and human voices —> calm us, make us happy, bring us pure hertz joy!
Life without music would be a mistake – Nietzsche