It’s true. Your body doesn’t need wheat. There are other grains you can enjoy, some with great function, like white rice - zero nutrients for US, but lots for our gut bugs. With just white rice and potato starch (great resistant starch if uncooked) you can make a ton of baked goods if you “want” them. Culturally we do want our birthday cakes and holiday treats. And there are more nutrients in teff and other unfamiliar grains than in wheat.
I went off gluten when I got into the early paleo craze but a year later I thought I could have a birthday treat that was made with wheat. I was up all night with indigestion. Haven’t eaten wheat willingly since (I realize it may have been in small amounts in restsurant food). My gut bugs no longer desl,with it well, and that is fine with me.
It’s not healthy nor good to eat much processed grains. A lot of the problems can be mental, as well. There’s so much research coming out. However, I’m not zealous - my family members eat wheat because they want to. People should eat what they want.
And when you think of why you love wheat, it’s for foods that hold stuff, mostly. And an addiction to bread is often bad gut bacteria and yeasts BEGGING you for it, and you might want to take two weeks and starve them out, and replace the bread addiction with baked potatoes. I know people,who did this and their brain fog (that they didn’t know they had) lifted afterwards!
I am glad that a gluten free diet is working well for you and you have found nutritional substitutes for wheat products. However, wheat and other whole grains which contain gluten are a healthy source of nutrients for billions of people all over the world and for much of human history. That is not something that fits the word “addiction” in any normal sense. And no, I do not believe that modern seed variants are necessarily any less nutritious than previous varieties.
The friends we have who are serious about eating gluten free for an extended period of time are mostly all having difficulties with weight gain, hair loss, bruising easily, and moodiness. If this describes symptoms you or others you know who also eat gluten free are experiencing, I would suggest that you have some sort of nutrition assessment done by an actual doctor.