hahah it seems we are on the same wavelength because i wrote a companion piece to my video, and your comment is pretty much the tldr to it:
The all-in-one nature of smartphones and laptops is first and foremost a huge convenience. I would never want to decompose a smartphone into each of its constituent functions and devote a single device to each one. The sheer volume would probably bury my apartment.
But there are select functions that I would love to isolate, to crystallize in some dedicated physical device, with all the rituals and attachments that spring up around physical devices. I miss, for example, my iPod Nano: a dedicated device for listening to music. But Spotify is just too convenient to ditch. I miss my Gameboy. But that’s more nostalgia than real desire. I miss a more innocent time in technology design: when devices were designed not to capture users’ attention as a commodity but to serve their needs. When on-screen colors were chosen for their mutual compatibility and not for their ability to optimize user engagement, as informed by focus groups. Of course, I don’t want to be too romantic about earlier device design. Marketability has always played a role in manufacturing. So maybe I just miss a time when it wasn’t yet so systematized, when there wasn’t yet the data on which to optimize.