I think trying to avoid all apps is unnecessary, just the ones designed to addict you which is almost all social media and a lot of mobile games. My weather app doesn't try to get me to doomscroll :) I have been against social media for a long time, though I do have a FB account I log into once yearly or so. I block ads because I don't like the distractions. I stopped logging in to YT because I didn't like how everything changes to try to draw me farther and farther in. Now I keep a separate list of bookmarks to content owners and decide what I want to watch on my terms.

I don't know how to get others there, though. Things feel so obviously designed to grab my attention and keep me there and I can't stand it, I don't get how others don't seem to care and jump in with both feet.

But then again I can't look a donut in the eye and not fall victim to them. So who am I to talk?