doing devil’s advocate here, because it does look like a nightmare.

IF my kids were to have access to a tablet, I would prefer it be a tablet specifically desgined for kids, rather than a commodity all powerful generic computing device and OS

Do notice that the big all powerful computer doesn't come with games and it's way more complicated to use, challenging the kid from the get-go.

Also they have to learn to use a mouse and a keyboard to do that. You probably forgot how hard it was to learn to use both. Double clicking was really hard for me as a kid

I've personally tried to do use a tablet in a productive way for the child, and it's all about the apps rather than the tablet itself. Tablets for children (Android knockoffs, essentially) provide what's needed, that is, account controls.

Problem is: there is a limited amount of apps that are genuinely fun and educative. If Amazon wanted really to do something truly educative for children, they'd build a whole market for it, the marketese I see in the article doesn't support that.

You are the parent, you can start at the IF. I'm attacking the premise, not the conclusion.

And I do respect the disclaimer, but lately my experience tells me the devil's advocates help the devil (and I'm an atheist!)

a big tech device/platform designed and algorithmically optimized to hit/increase corporate metrics with small kids as the subjects... hard to imagine anything more dystopian

maybe it'll help us raise good docile consumers and workers tho /s