You say that because you don't understand how photographic apparatus works. magnum photographers didn't had "awful" lenses, the lenses they had were incredible

You say that because you don't understand how photographic apparatus works. magnum photographers didn't had "awful" lenses, the lenses they had were incredible for the time and still today they are incredible and a used 50mm Leica lens from 50 years ago is still worth more than an entire iPhone today, new iPhone. And that's if they were using the "amateur" 35mm film, medium format (120mm), was even better. What they lacked in technological sophistication, they compensated in just BIG FAT glass and BIG FAT photosensitive area compared to a phone today, and less versatility (no zoom, e.g., no through the lenses focusing, e.g.) You really don't understand, tech can do many things, but it can't surpass physics.