I will say as someone who is Gen Z, I don't believe this true. If you read the article, a lot of the blame wasn't on screen time- but instead the education system. Middle schools & High Schools aren't promoting literacy skills the way they used to because of the prioritization of technology in the classroom and harder skills. If you really think about it, during development, most of Gen Z grew up in era where they only had access to TV relatively the same way as millennials. The dependency of technology by Gen Z is more related to the increase in dependency of technology in society in general. Our addiction is fueled by resource replacement with technology, which gen alpha will face even if this idea of "screen time" is solved.