But it's a stupid way of seeing things because people choose consciously to use their phones as much as they do on a daily basis - not being forced or having nothing else worth doing. Regrets usually carry a lot of bullshit.
I understand your point but its not really fair. The choice is not always conscious when there are a thousand behavioral analysts on the other side of the screen trying to make you use their apps more and more.
I would say its the lack of a conscious choice that makes us using our phones so much.
I don't quite get the behavioural analysis bits. I spend time on my phone reading the news, reddit, HN, a couple blogs, WhatsApp with friends and I also play games here and there until they bore me. The game I logged the most time in is a port of a game made by a shareware-style developer back in the ninetees.
Where was such analysis involved in driving my usage patterns?