Its not diversion, Kanoim are using the smartphones as a diversion for their own failures.
How many Asifas have their been for smartphones and how many asifas for Molestation, Abuse, Agunahs , Finances combined. It shows where priorities lay.
Smartphones are widespread in the Kehilla, but the other issues are a problem with leadership. If you knew for a fact a person used a smartphone or let an abuser get free. Whom would you consider a bigger Rasha. The leadership who poo-poos these bigger issues are causing people not to follow the Rabbanim. If people lose faith in the Rabbanim you have a much bigger problem