The reason I bothered to respond is that there is a common tendency to look back at historical people and see them as extremely primitive -- with little knowledge, with little entertainment, with little going on. That they would have had nothing better to do than to look at the sky.

And that's what I'm pushing back on. No, that's just not true. Obviously some people were interested in the sky, and it was a tool for certain things, but OP literally said "There was really nothing else to do." That's a complete misunderstanding of human society in history. And it's important we don't reduce our ancestors to these primitive stereotypes.

It's also important to push back on the idea that there were no distractions. OP says "no internet, no devices, no tv..." but there was extensive village gossip, games, stories... fundamentally we had all the same kind of distractions. We're a lot more similar than OP thinks.

You were writing as if people were staring at the sky all night long out of boredom. You said "There was really nothing else to do."

That's completely untrue. It's a total misunderstanding of what life was like.

I'm not helping your narrative, I'm saying it's a false narrative. We have so many misunderstandings about how people used to live, it's important not to perpetuate them.