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Like what's the actual emotion connected to it? How do you tell if you feel it? I do spend several days alone at times, so it would make sense I should feel it at some point. Maybe I did, but I'm not sure.
Imagine a cold empty feeling that leaves you hollow in the chest. Your eyes glaze over but there's a twisting tension in the corners. You forget how long it's been since you last inhaled and you don't mind assessing the situation before breathing again. You can be still for hours and have no regret, no yearning
For centuries humans have bonded, in nomadic tribes, clans, colloquially, in civilization, hunting and gathering
If a parent can pass on something like a predisposition for addiction or criminal behavior, and we can domesticate animals into cattle and pets, then ponder upon the importance of humanity evolving with a "good of the group" mentality that can be seen as far back as 10,000 years ago I believe
If you've never been wanting, it makes sense why you wouldn't know what it's like. It's not like experiencing it or not is good or bad. Like with never experiencing it, the spectrum would be between being/becoming buddha and being heartless, out of touch with people and reality, or something along those lines, and for experiencing it it would be between personal/spiritual growth, enlightenment and adapting to play the victim
So it's not really which circumstance that's important, it's how individuals handle them that really matters. You're not weird or abnormal to have never experienced loneliness, nor are you special or different for it. It's just how your life is developing, how your paths play out. You don't choose the people you happen to interact with, thereby forming a basis for who you can choose to interact with. The lonely person likely didn't have total autonomy over their situation either. Just like it's up to them to overcome their burdens, it's up to people like you to make it easier to not be lonely. A "holier than thou" type can actually keep a person down, and if they're so bad for being depressed or lonely, what does that make the person who helped perpetuate the problem?