Isn't this just because screens now do more? Even before screens, some people talked on the phone compulsively, some played chess compulsively, some sat in the

Isn't this just because screens now do more? Even before screens, some people talked on the phone compulsively, some played chess compulsively, some sat in their basement building things out of legos compulsively. Now it's possible to do all those things via a single screen. When looked at in this way, a screen is basically just a tool that takes on the form of many different physical objects rather than something nefarious.