It's not really - it's going in the inverse direction regarding how much more processed and artificially altered it gets.

Except it seems to be going in the opposite direction, every phone I've upgraded (various Androids and iPhones) seemed to have more smoothing than the one I'd had before. My iPhone 16 night photos look like borderline generative AI and there's no way to turn that off!

I was honestly happier with the technically inferior iPhone 5 camera, the photos at least didn't look fake.

"Better"...