I generally agree with your comments. I did a fair bit of film photography (mostly B&W) decades ago. From digital photography perspective, I'm an average Joe wh

I generally agree with your comments. I did a fair bit of film photography (mostly B&W) decades ago. From digital photography perspective, I'm an average Joe who mostly takes snapshots with smartphone. I just wanted to make a comment about post-processing. Post-processing with film (ignoring modern-day scanning to digital) historically required one to have a darkroom (and skills) to do the desired post-processing. I did this a lot when I worked for a small town newspaper many years ago. Often, the writers/editors would take photos from whatever events they attended. I'd print a contact sheet for them (after developing the film) and then they'd use a grease pencil to circle the ones they wanted to include for publication. The majority of the prints I made involved doing some combination of cropping, dodging, burning, and enlarger exposure adjustments to make the end result better looking than the original. The writers would often make comments like "Wow, I'm a pretty good photographer!" after seeing the final prints. I would just smile and say "yeah, it turned out good" without mentioning all of the darkroom improvements that were made. All of this to say that historically, the only people that usually had any post-processing of their film photographs were those who had darkrooms or professionals who would have some of their prints air-brushed. Contrast that with any of the common digital cameras now (including smartphones). Many, if not the vast majority, have built-in capabilities for red-eye removal, adjusting brightness, color correction, cropping, etc. On top of this, the bar is quite low (and tools are plenty) for doing post-processing on the computer. It seems that many (most?) of the serious amateurs and professionals routinely do post-processing of the shots they care about. I would think that post-processing is more common with digital for the serious amateurs and professionals as compared with film (prior to digital scanning), and is now a thing by many (to some extent) of the smartphone casual photographers.