Teenagers will be cruel no matter what. Finding non-shitty friends in Highschool is an important skill, that is pretty much independent of what phone you have.
But why should they be forced to compensate for that dark pattern? User unfriendliness for sake of selling phones.
Even though I have an iPhone, I don’t care about the green. So what? Apple made their phone do an ugly thing, didn’t make my friends do anything ugly.