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Exactly. These are carefully designed to drip-feed dopamine rewards and keep maximizing "engagement" to maximize resultant profit, or at the very least, minimize the time the user spends doing anything else (including playing a competitor's game).
Parents barely stand a chance. In child education lit, we're still relying on old 90s tropes of "don't let your kid sit in front of the TV too long" and "no more than two hours, preferrably maxed at one hour, for screentime of any screen per day".
"Do you know where your kids are?" has been replaced by "have your kids gone outside today?"