I got that vibe from one of my ex’s parents. They weren’t “bad” in a traditional sense, but very distant and self-centered, spending almost all of their time on their phones and throwing money at their children as if it would replace interacting with them. It’s subtle, but still harmful, like carbon monoxide, and it weirded me out a little. I had assumed it was just how that generation is nowadays though (like my parents, they were older-ish, they gotta be about 60 years old or so now)