For sure, HDR and AI noise removal are pretty good. But there's one more thing that's less visible, which is that smartphones are not very friendly to standalon

For sure, HDR and AI noise removal are pretty good. But there's one more thing that's less visible, which is that smartphones are not very friendly to standalone cameras. Cameras have always depended on PCs to do capture. And since smartphones did not provide ways to do fast wireless transfer, it made a separate device even harder to use. My Sony mirrorless takes about 30 seconds to connect to iPhone using ad-hoc WiFi, and it's a bunch of work on both sides. So while I can sort of get from the camera to Instagram, it's way harder than it should be if the mobile device makers wanted it to work.