The elephant in the room is that if you lead a fulfilling life, smartphone addiction is easy to cast off unlike most legal or illegal physiological drugs. I ag

The elephant in the room is that if you lead a fulfilling life, smartphone addiction is easy to cast off unlike most legal or illegal physiological drugs. I agree that the disingenuous mindset you are alluding to is a problem. The technological environment we are in has its own logic, and we can't simply ignore that in favor of a fairy-tale about personal responsibility. However, a person that is generally engaged in compelling activities will still not be drawn to the smartphone even in an environment that encourages it. In a sense, the fact that we adopted the smartphone so quickly is a testament to how unsatisfied we collectively were.