> Maybe it's the way games and apps are designed these days and attempt to hijack your attention, nearly all of them utilising a similar UX pattern (infinite sc

> Maybe it's the way games and apps are designed these days and attempt to hijack your attention, nearly all of them utilising a similar UX pattern (infinite scroll videos, stories, for example) I'm pretty sure that that's exactly the problem: modern phones and tablets are interactive TVs first and foremost that happen to have the capability to work like computers if you put in a lot of work. Even if all you did was play games in the pre-smartphone era, those games were not optimized for addiction and microtransactions.