The article doesn't match the conclusion. The buried lede: procrastinating with the Internet is easier than procrastinating without the Internet.
If you care about your kids, control their access to the brain rotting aspects of technology like a tyrant.
I sympathize with this goal, but I'm not seeing what to do instead of screens for kids. I've been looking, hard. Suburbia makes this really hard. try getting three kids to sports with two working parents, and thats only half the time you're trying to fill. Try to get any kind of regular playtime with other families who are busier than you. We kid ourselves we're keeping them off of algorithms, but craft materials only take them so far, and the rest will be filled with TV and video games when we are stuck working.