This seems to be a common position, and I share much of it. I usually don’t want to do anything all that fancy on my phone, but once in a while, some edge case comes up where what I want and what the manufacturer or OS vendor has decided to approve differ.

In those situations, I insist on having the last word.

I think that one thing to keep in mind is that for a lot of younger users in particular, there is no PC. This is their only computing device; the smartphone has displaced the PC, not augmented it. So for many, it’s not merely whether their phone can do phone things. If the phone is restricted, so is their computing experience as a whole.