Haha. I'm not a big reader, but maybe it's the same on my end, where your technology is my world's scifi stories.
[Your sad, stone age-sounding technology.] [How could you even accomplish anything without machines with the capacity for rational thought and decision making. This all sounded more like children's toys.]
It seems like it'd be lonely though. Not working with things that can think, I mean. [boy does he ever know what it's like to work with little shits that can't think.]