But at this moment, that continuous access is entirely enabled by smartphones. Giving children access to smartphones but not to social media (e.g. in a classroom) is not feasible.

Just saying they identified the wrong thing that mattered

Smartphones are why social media is the way it is.

It'd be a lot different, and a lot less-used, if you still had to go sit at a desk to use it.

Depression and mental health issues is directly coming from the software on mobile phones not the fact that you carry a computer in your pocket.

They focus on the wrong variable. It would be hard to ban mobile phones. But less hard to curb down on social media.

Or the always-available escape from reality, preventing from from having to face the world and/or their issues.

Bad analogies are bad analogies