I have the exact opposite impression. A few months ago I was directing a stage play, planning to shoot it with a high-end camera and stream it to YouTube via OB

I have the exact opposite impression. A few months ago I was directing a stage play, planning to shoot it with a high-end camera and stream it to YouTube via OBS. But I ran into two problems. First, I couldn't get a live feed from my camera. Second, the internet bandwidth at the theatre wasn't sufficient to support a hi-def stream. I ended up solving both problems with my iPhone, shooting the show with FiLMiC Pro, using OBS Camera to send the live feed to a laptop running OBS and finally using my phone as a hotspot for the laptop to stream the show to YouTube. In a pinch, I could have eliminated the laptop from the setup entirely. The iPhone is a goddamn pocket miracle. Yes, it's restricted as a development platform, but it has put incredible content creation tools into the hands of millions of people. And, yes, there are more consumers than producers (and always will be), but there are so very many producers out there now. Look at TikTok and Instagram (and before Instagram, Flickr).