I think so. If you can’t cuddle with an animal then they’re significantly less wonderful. Majestic, perhaps, but there’s nothing like fluffy cuddles.

Bears are sometimes pretty cool. There’s a lady on tiktok that scratches one behind the ears with a rake whenever it shows up. Which is apparently a frequent thing for her. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRv5qd55/

Somehow she trained it to sit… https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRv5yDQk/

But I don’t think bears are domesticatable through selective breeding, whereas there’s some evidence that wolves are.