Modes have to evolve and the amateur radio community needs to do more to educate. The harrumphs of the old-timers can be discouraging, but amateur radio needs to push through that in order to stay current.
The world got onboard with 802.11g (and even 802.11b but that sucked). That was a massive movement towards the proliferation of wireless devices. While the standard costs $178 from IEEE, you can find copies of it scattered all over the internet. I don't know why hams have adopted these closed standards, I'm guessing it's because at one point the hobby was dominated by elmers too old to figure out anything but the newest expensive shiny thing from Icom or Yaesu (too much money, not enough sense...) Nowadays you can pull up GNU Radio and start using any sort of open standard mode you want because of how accessible everything is.
You can catch me on FT8 or bashing out CW with a straight key or on 2m FM. Depends on what mood I’m in.
If there’s an emergency I’ll use my phone though. I can’t see any utility in it. I just enjoy it.