Your logic is v compelling. Why fight evil technology with bad technology? I've tried a version of digital minimalism, viz. veen's suggestion to prune my smartphone. However, the mere deactivation and deletion of apps is not so an insurmountable a resistance that I don't reactivate everything in moments of weakness. Plus, the web browser is its own omnipresent, tantalizing possibility for distraction. My ego stores remain high when I don't have to even think about it. It's almost as if my brain will only know quiet if there's a hard guardrail. Drink less? It'll be teetotalism, thank you. Exercise more? Two hours a day or nothing. Focus more intentionally? Who wants a free iPhone 8 Plus? We'll see. I think events might make this clearer for me in a week once I get back home.