Nah I live in a medium sized city and it’s not everyone. There are many people with headphones sure and some are doing things on their phone. There are also many people not doing anything or looking out the window (when in busses). It may have to do with demographics, it’s mostly older people who aren’t doing anything and teenagers in groups who spend the whole ride talking and that’s a big part of public transport users so they affect the general image.

For what it’s worth I probably bring the phone usage up cause I read on my phone but you can do that with a physical book and there are some people doing that too.

For the second yes, but mostly because I get lost very easily. The first not really, many people outside are not on their phones.

Something felt wrong about this comment but it took a while to figure out what. It’s in English. I guess you meant you only communicate orally in German but it kinda confirms the original post.

Most if not all music is on YouTube for free already. Maybe the equivalent is the sites that let you download music from YouTube and these come and go like the movie streaming sites.