You do you, but you’re willingly giving up on countless small moments of goodness in your life and a lot of potential opportunities, over what amounts to a minor amount of effort.
Like, the main point of small talk is that you can effectively turn your brain off and still produce something passable. You get to choose how far you’re going to engage. You can, if needed, boil most of it down to a flowchart if it doesn’t come naturally to you.