So basically you have a tool which you use for certain tasks and when the tool broke you could not do all those tasks as easy as before. Well d'oh.
Yeah, smartphones are ubiquitous now and required for many tasks so if you break your smart phone, doing these tasks gets harder, of course
I don't see that as a bad thing, these are tasks that smart phones have taken over and improved upon massively. That is a good thing (TM)
There are lots of ways in which smart phones are bad for us, any of the items described here aren't on that list, really.