Iâ(TM)m just on the cusp of GenX (56 yo) and thereâ(TM)s no way I would want to go back to pre-smart phone days. I am old enough to remember having to use travellers cheques (and actual cheques too ffs) and needing to stand in queues for passport control, and getting lost in foreign places, and needing phrase books, not knowing how to buy rail tickets, and all manner of things that are trivially simple / non-problems these days.
I enjoy reading books and news etc on my phone. I donâ(TM)t participate much in âoesocialâ media (left Facebook years ago, still scroll thru twitter occasionally and could not give a fuck about Reddit, Iâ(TM)ve got Slashdot for that). But with a smart phone I have ChatGPT at my fingertips (really handy when touring old art galleries and ancient cities etc), maps, payments, ID, my files and so on. Iâ(TM)ve got Vivino to tell me about the wine Iâ(TM)m being served. I can buy a new book and not end up with luggage full of books.
The people they surveyed must be people who pretty much never leave their own homes.