[andai]

You can call it "induce cognitive impairment" if you prefer, but it doesn't change what it is.

The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4

If calling it what it is helps encourage people to stop doing it to themselves (we are after all emotion-first, rationalization-later!)... then your taking offense on my behalf (for the record, I do have brain damage) will have been an acceptable cost.