What's good about this is that it might allow a targeted solution (don't compose long texts or watch movies will driving) instead of taking away responsible people's ability to add a gas station stop to their trip, glance at some song lyrics in broad daylight with no traffic, or dictate voice notes while driving. The sense of responsibility that makes me slow down in bad conditions and leave a good following gap is plenty well tuned to make me a safe driver. The rules are needed by an entirely different class of people with less ability to imagine consequences and estimate risk.

Maybe I do need the rules to protect myself from those people, but I wish people wouldn't get into this moral panic as though touching a cell phone is the equivalent of blacking out your windshield.