Why is "sharing to smartphones" in the set of things we want out of the technology stack that encourages young people to code? Smartphones aren't the Nintendo

Why is "sharing to smartphones" in the set of things we want out of the technology stack that encourages young people to code? Smartphones aren't the Nintendo Switch, and (for me, at least) wallpapering over the differences in hardware platforms is not an exciting part of the learning-to-code experience.