As social media and smartphones exist now and are likely to exist in a hypercapitalist system, it’d be a huge net overall societal benefit and individual benefit if both were banned or never in fact existed.

They are harmful psychologically and socially and are akin to a supernormal stimulus in animal behavior that causes an organism to respond maladaptively to something it is not evolved to deal with. If neither had ever been created we’d be much better off.