It felt like there was an arc, where the hardware was getting better as they shrank components and managed to do decent things with the small lenses. Light comp

It felt like there was an arc, where the hardware was getting better as they shrank components and managed to do decent things with the small lenses. Light computational touches were fine! But then things seemed to get weird. I had a Samsung S21 Ultra, and while it did some neat party tricks, I tended to dislike most of the photos, especially if you get anywhere near 100% view. Just so much automatic editing that maybe looks OK for a compressed web photo, but is not a high quality photo. I'm on a OnePlus 9 Pro and I am back to loving taking photos with it. They aren't as "impressive" as the 10x zoom photos, but they look good and do not look massively overworked. But it makes me nervous for when I need a replacement and have to come forward on this arc.