I agree. I see a lot of comments about “being intentional about using the phone” but in those cases the phone doesn’t lock anyway… using maps or watching something prevents auto lock. It just makes no sense at all to disable it.
It’s not true if you’re looking at sheet music in Safari while playing an instrument for example, or looking at engine assembly diagram while working on an engine with greasy hands.
That's true of video playback, it's not true for other apps I want to keep open without the phone auto-locking. People making those comments aren't like lying or delusional, they're just using different apps.