It is a wrong assumption, especially with all-for-profit corporations designing the devices.
In the first place, insensitive unintelligent overuse of technology by all-for-profit industries is destroying the ability of our planet to support life as we know it. We’re driving other species to extinction, and we’ll also drive ourselves extinct unless we correct this.
Notice how you mentioned “the world’s goals to be better in every way”? Well, all-for-profit corporations and industry’s goals are not your goals – their goals are increasing their profits and power. And they don’t generally care at all about the species they are driving to extinction, which eventually leads to driving ourselves to extinction too.
Many corporate technology decisions are product-oriented and profit-oriented. e.g. what can they get people to pay for? Technology is often used as a way to get people to buy new versions of things they already have, but that seem new/improved/trendier than the versions they have. And many products are designed to break or otherwise become obsolete at the most efficient rate to maximize their profits.
For example, the absolutely pointless light-control-unit computer in my car, which broke down and costs $600+ to replace, but doesn’t exist in earlier models of cars because really it’s just an expensive new point of failure replacing what was just a switch and some wires before.
The whole tone of your question is an example of the mindset that has been cultivated in people where they are hungry for the next new technology just because an appetite has been conditioned for it.
Some technologies are great, but the ideas and practices around them are often highly problematic and/or designed to rake in more and more profits for the already-too-wealthy.