At the risk of being called a "boomer" I think lots of newer devs got in to the field for the money, and the remote possibilities. In my experience it seems like the genuine curiosity of computers is isn't what it was.
This is soley how i access reddit now. I closed my account a few years ago (time sink and don't agree with their censorship), but it's nice to hop on occasionally as a lurker.
Oh well, like you said, probably better.
The time to negotiate your salary is during the hiring process. Employees are not owed anything above the agreed upon amount, no matter how successful the company is.
You might want to look at tasker to have it enable Bluetooth when you're not at home or something similar.
Also, on most cars you can change the priority of phones, moving yours down would help.
Unfortunately, the solution that comes up to fix bad government policies is more government policies.
The intentions is usually good, but the consequences are always bad.