The Simulacrum of Digital Relationships

Just as real relationships become more and more artificial, virtual alternatives become more and more realistic. The image of a relationship is in the mind and the mind is eager to believe in comforting illusions:
Virtually edited characters creating a family-like environment and artificial worlds of pleasure and comfort, free of flaws and connections to the real world. VRchat showcases how little virtual reality needs to permanently alter social interaction.
Are we going to experience a huge cultural shift where most relationships become digital simulacra?

The transition from signs which dissimulate something to signs which dissimulate that there is nothing, marks the decisive turning point. The first implies a theology of truth and secrecy (to which the notion of ideology still belongs). The second inaugurates an age of simulacra and simulation, in which there is no longer any God to recognize his own, nor any last judgment to separate truth from false, the real from its artificial resurrection, since everything is already dead and risen in advance.[6]

War comes not when it is made by sovereign against sovereign (not when killing for attritive and strategic neutralisation purposes is authorised; nor even, properly spoken, when shots are fired); rather, war comes when society is generally convinced that it is coming.