Nice first post Big Watch.
Sure, it may have been a factor, but let's not beat around the bush.
I agree that the elephant in the room was the phone and the way that that distraction was
1/ allowed to happen
2/ dealt with when it did happen
But that doesn't mean we can't learn something from each other by diuscussing other things in the ATSB report;
ie
The first officer’s decision making was probably affected by fatigue
If we never went deeper than "The Captain played with his phone on finals, naughty boy....case closed" we would miss many oportunities to make the industry safer...don't you think?