Environmental based addiction

True, though the environment isn't a "thing" and it isn't a one directional influence even if it is huge and makes it very hard. Actually in your situation it's more than just the environment if we consider it's a matter of nature and nurture - since you have the same biology and the "nurture" is basically the ongoing conditioning from day to day. I could even imagine that might be partly why people seek out sex because it is a process of biological/genetic influence different from the existing inherited one but that's another topic.

This is actually why people need a real recovery fellowship, not just going to a bunch of meetings and running through a script, but to have actual relationships with people, to the degree where there's a local community. The idea is it is a home away from home. This takes a lot of work and mutual understanding, and probably a lot of tolerance, but it sure as fuck isn't going to happen if people think it's just about showing up somewhere to "get" some thing as if it's a material resource especially if it's online meetings.

In other words, the environment is made up of the people there right? So if everyone shows up with nothing to offer and only expect to get something then why would you have anything? It's like they all have their hands open or they think stuff off the top of their heads is gold because they have X amount of time in recovery about this one thing, but then that doesn't take into the other factors of an environment. ASSUMING they are even addicted to the same thing, are they living at home? What kind of upbringing did they have, sibling interactions? School experience? How old are they vs. how old are you?

It takes a sense of perspective. And while it's certainly not impossible to have an online community I think people really do not have a realistic perspective about it, it's largely done online due to habit (which prob. includes laziness) because in places where it's all opened up people are ignoring in person meetings and it was probably largely about their own unquestioned expectations before. Obviously some people just don't have as many opportunities in their area to begin with but there's a huge difference between not even looking vs. not having it, you won't know what's possible until you even look or try. And there's also a difference between what works and what's convenient.