> Eventually I gave it up because I didn't want to be mistaken for just another screen-addled zombie with no impulse control miserably scrolling Whatsapp and Instagram.

So you gave it up not because you are worried about being a "phone addicted zombie" but because you are worried about being precieved and judged as such?

Some would say changing your behaviour due to social insecurity is just another form of being a zombie.

Not sure it would make me a "zombie" exactly but I agree it's an oddly incoherent position to judge the behavior of others while also being concerned about their gaze. Much introspection has not yet pierced this mystery.