I hate it. Last year I did a big career essay in which I had to call
three doctors whom I never even met

actually one was my current doctor but I didn't know her very well. They were all from the same clinic+hospital that my mother works but I still didn't know them. The interviews ended up like 20 minutes long and they were really awkward, but that's probably mainly because I'm not good at interviews.
Calling companies about services/buying things sucks too. I hate having to call eBay before their support is so wishy washy. In general I almost always type up a brief thing in Word mentioning all the things I want to say because otherwise I'll probably forget

I do everything to avoid calling companies, so I use live chat 100% of the time if it's available.