I think you are indeed missing a few pros. Off the top of my head,
1. Having Google/Apple Maps has helped me find new restaurants and kept me from ever getting lost in foreign cities,
2. Tinder and other dating apps have enabled me to date people that I would never have met in my day-to-day life,
3. Lyft and Uber have come in handy more times than I can count,
and the list goes on. My use-case is different than yours, I’m sure, but there is a reason that smartphones are ubiquitous: we as a society have roughly evaluated the cost-benefit analysis of owning one and tend to side with the ‘benefit’.
1. Having Google/Apple Maps has helped me find new restaurants and kept me from ever getting lost in foreign cities,
2. Tinder and other dating apps have enabled me to date people that I would never have met in my day-to-day life,
3. Lyft and Uber have come in handy more times than I can count,
and the list goes on. My use-case is different than yours, I’m sure, but there is a reason that smartphones are ubiquitous: we as a society have roughly evaluated the cost-benefit analysis of owning one and tend to side with the ‘benefit’.