Your NES wasn't monitoring your every action to try to figure out how to make itself even more addictive to you. And both it and your computer eventually got bo

Your NES wasn't monitoring your every action to try to figure out how to make itself even more addictive to you. And both it and your computer eventually got boring, and made you seek out something else to do. Phones are categorically different from the technology we were "glued" to in our 8-bit youth. People aren't hating on generic screen time here, they're hating on always-on fully-connected devices loaded with software that is continually adapting to try and increase your engagement time with them.