Yes they have been doing aesthetic decisions since a while. What started out with "simple" image stabilizations, noise filtering etc. has long become a pipelin

Yes they have been doing aesthetic decisions since a while. What started out with "simple" image stabilizations, noise filtering etc. has long become a pipeline of "apply AI magic onto the image which makes it how people think it should look" (instead of how it actually looks). Like making the sky much more bluer then it is. Or edges much sharper then anything such a camera could see (or sometimes especially in combination with digital zoom anything a human with sharp healthy eyes could see). And in case of image stabilization one thing you tend to turn is to take multiple pictures in a row and interpolate. Like some pictures with leafs "besides" the head and some with them behind the head. And then "magic" the head becomes the leaf.