Are they? People are incredibly important, crucial to the life puzzle, but I'd disagree on it being the ultimate key.

Even though it's good to value friends and family (not arguing against this at all!), me time is needed too. Hobbies and other work you like.

Personally I believe there's a good amount of engaging with your acquaintances, and an excessive amount where you're just shuffling around between them, getting lost in those dynamics. In that case, there's probably a way to keep relationships growing naturally, with almost the same returns and much less time sunk.

That's one point of view. Perhaps the most common one, if literature is to believed. But it's just one; not everyone ticks like that. I don't. And I'm guessing the author of the article and their target audience doesn't either.