Bonus is your battery should never be dead when you really need it.
Bonus is your battery should never be dead when you really need it.
It's a methodological error to overestimate the power of humans as animals to resist reward systems such as these.
Yes, it can be done, but it's difficult, and most will fail (and there are other factors making it even more difficult, e.g. people tired from work, depression, children that have less developed self control or sense of purpose, etc).
Instead of the user limiting time on their own phone, you want the government to? Or you want the government to restrict certain practices from certain app makers?
There are many many many things people abuse and many many many industries that make their products as addictive as possible, that's the world we live in.
Go after the caffeine and sugar industry if you want to rid the most humans of addiction.
In the end it's up to the person to practice self-control, passing the buck to the government just ends up in less freedom and more black markets.