> In a dopaminergic delirium I would re-install Safari, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Vine, YouTube, Gmail, Apple News

The trick is to develop a deep and justified hate of social media. Where you don't just delete the apps, but delete your whole account, because of the business practices that sit behind the feed. Then it's not willpower that attempts to keep you away, it's a moral stance and an identity as someone who doesn't use social media. Treat social media the same way most people treat smoking or hard drugs. It isn't willpower that holds them back.

I find going full dumb-phone to be a non-starter in the modern era. I need a smartphone to start work each morning by using an authenticator app to sign into the VPN; this is not optional unless I find a new job. Going to concerts or sporting events also requires a smartphone, as most venues I've been to over the last several years don't support paper tickets anymore. More and more, people without smart phones are locked out of parts of society.

I'm not sure how someone with a dumb phone can function on their own without leaning on others with a smartphone. 20 years ago I knew a girl who kept getting rid of her normal cell phone, at one point going back to a beeper. It was a similar mentality, but she was only able to do it because she was always with other people who had cell phones. This then becomes a burden on friends and family, and the "solution" to the problem can't grow, as the model breaks at scale within a friend group.