My issue with this has nothing to do with purism, but with how often the results are just no good, for reasons that have nothing to do with the sensor, but the

My issue with this has nothing to do with purism, but with how often the results are just no good, for reasons that have nothing to do with the sensor, but the choices of whatever model they run. Does it take a picture at night? Yes, but it's often unrecognizable compared to what my own sensor, my eyes, sees. It's not a matter of a slightly better reality, but the camera making choices about how light should go that have nothing to do with the composition in front of it. You might remember an article about how there are many situations where the iphone just takes bad portraits, because its idea of what good lightning is breaks down. 5 year old phones often take pictures I like more than one of the latest phones, and not because the hardware was better, but because the tuning is just bad. Fun things also happen when you take pictures of things that are not often in the model: Crawlspaces, pipes, or, say, dentistry closeups. I've had results that were downright useless outside of raw mode, because computational photography step really had no idea of what it was doing. It's not that the sensors are limited, but that the things that the iphone does sometimes make the picture far worse than in the past, when it took fewer liberties.