Traditional hypocrisy

Apparently the customers of pub-chain and brewery Samuel Smith aren't allowed to use mobile devices in their pubs. I guess there's some kind of  "natural selection" process taking place here, most businesses that can't or won't adapt to changes in the habits of their customers tend to fail fairly reliably. I wonder if there's a fear of change or some kind of bigotry hiding behind the word "Traditional" in this case? Anyway, as fate would have it some bright-spark managed to snap the mercurial owner of the company (Humphrey Smith) sitting in a Wetherspoons establishment enjoying the fruits of modern mobile telephony.

The British public tend to be a skeptical bunch but also fairly tolerant and easy going (relatively speaking) However, I'm not sure hypocrisy on this level is something that will be tolerated for very long. I think it would be fair to ask, what, other than the pretty buildings that some of them occupy, is there (certainly not the beer) to attract modern beer drinkers to Sam Smiths pubs anymore? Perhaps Humphrey is using the term "traditional" here in the same way as the British car manufacturing industry clung onto it during the 70's and 80's, right up to the point that industry didn't exist anymore.