Might be irritating with the match today but I'm a huge fan of that policy in general. I might try and make something similar a de facto rule among my mates too.
I've already had to tell enough people off and even lost a fairly good mate in no small part because they took the phone obsession to an obnoxious extent: we'd be eating a meal together and his phone screen wouldn't go off from the moment we sat down to the time we got up again. It was actually affecting his ability to eat normally. What a cunt.
Smartphones are ruining a lot of necessary and very healthy face-to-face interaction. I'm not as intolerant as some and I can live with phones coming out occasionally because we all have stuff we need to handle but I can't abide people who prioritise the idle shit coming out of their phone over the real life person in front of them.
The computer scientist in me loves the constant development of amazing new technologies. The neuroscientist in me is deeply concerned about the potentially huge negative consequences of smartphones, "social" media, the 5G grid, technological unemployment, IoT devices etc. on our mental and physical health. The common sense in me makes me something of a luddite overall. I'm at least two generations behind in most hardware and software tech in my personal life. I'll never be buying a smart TV, Windows 10, fingerprint-locked smartphone, Hive, Ring, any Amazon device, any "smart" device, any IoT device, any version of Microsoft Office after 2013, phone with a locked bootloader, always-online game or software, any version of SQL Server Dev Edition after 2012 -- if anyone wants advice on how to cling to some semblance of your privacy and security in this modern world, just ask me! Now how did I get onto this topic again..?