IMO it's not "smartphones" but the OSes built by apple and google that encourage unhealthy and addictive usage. None of my pre "smartphone" PDAs did this, and

IMO it's not "smartphones" but the OSes built by apple and google that encourage unhealthy and addictive usage. None of my pre "smartphone" PDAs did this, and I don't feel myself sucked into the mindless addictive patterns on my PinePhone (although that may be because Firefox can be sluggish on it.)