The problem is still there even for the best of the kids, if you haven't noticed: when the earlier generation was growing up, there were 1-2 screens in the whole house and everyone was reading books, now it's dozens of devices in every hand (even the school now stupidly mandates ipads - forced a replacement down our throat for what was always carefully done with pen and paper), and it takes the current-gen kids a superhuman amount of willpower to get away from the devices, casual games, etc etc. Heck, even 90% of adults can't fight that constant dopamine stream from news or FB likes, even the most intelligent ones. So blame the kids all you want, it's a problem even for the best of them.