Comment by j45

The sunk cost and dollar store arguments assume the goal is information retrieval at minimum cost.

The relationship with technology you're designing around your family is worth considering too.

Looking at a shared hallway screen that shows a shared calendar which doesn't exist to pull anyone into a feed doesn't make a worse phone, it's solving a different level of shared understanding entirely.

The assumption that the phone is a neutral free tool tends to come most naturally to people who haven't yet thought about who designed the defaults and why. Free at point of use isn't the same as free. Someone optimized very hard for your continued presence.