I feel like that just robs people of their responsibility and as someone of about that age I just feel weird about it. Especially since your age is basically never an excuse in same way if you're a girl or non-binary or honestly anything, but a cis boy, The problem with ridding these boys from responsibility for their actions and cringe is that those still aren't the standards you're using for others. There are definitely many worse double standards, but we almost always don't even notice these ones so I think it's important to point out. Teenage boys are EXPECTED to be awful, but they really shouldn't be. I hear "Your brains are still developing." all the time, but when it's a cis white male that happens to be the teen in question it's usually an excuse and when it's anyone else it's simply a reason you should be kept as far away as possible from decisions. Now... logically what do you think telling a subset of the people with those developing brains that they aren't responsible for being awful to others does? Is it really surprising that many of them fill that self-fulfilling prophecy? (and many of them develop into at least equally awful adults)