content: Me. You have tiers of people.  My folks, no cell phone only a landline and no answering machine/VM (ever). "If it's important enough, they'll call back" Me ~ I have an old flip phone and no landline, no texting, no apps (and $6/month bill using a $30 phone) ~ if you're not someone I've added as a contact, you have to leave a voice mail as I won't answer unknown numbers.    And then apparently there's a new tier who could do without any voice and subsist on text alone.    But there's a Vast swath of people ahead of whatever the 20 y/o kids generation is, who still use voice mail.  I have to say, that if this shit starts happening I will abruptly turn off voice mail and give Serious consideration to simply dropping the cell phone completely and be 100% without any phone connection.