That or "Yes, but we don't want it enough". It's complicated by the mechanisms designed to keep you in though. You could say someone who claims to hate social media but can't stay off it clearly doesn't hate it that much, but that ignores that the platforms are designed to be addictive.
You know I actually don't really believe this
It's just giving too much credit to the companies
We don't understand enough about people to
really manipulate them
For all the pseudo-scientific nonsense boomers pass around about how they're manipulating us with "dopamine" hits, we actually don't even clearly know how dopamine works or how to game it.
It's true that they do a lot of A/B testing, and then choose whichever model gets the most engagement, but you could equally frame this as "making a product people like and want to use."
It's just that the "addiction" framework has become a meme
Even though ah, we don't really have any coherent way to separate out what's "good" from what's "addictive," other than the standard psychiatric/DSM way, which is to ask, "Does the subject pursue X substance even at extreme, disproportionate cost to themselves, against their own self-interest?"
And I'm just not sure we even have a way to answer that about social media, whether we hang out on it b/c we're social creatures and wanna constantly be connected, or whether it's an "addiction"