at this point we're not talking about good cameras, we're talking about having fucking telescopes built into the phone.

I have a pixel 6a and the camera is absolutely fine, i have taken perfectly good images on it and that's with me specifically removing any sort of automatic software enhancements it might have when running the stock OS.

With modern technology even a phone without a camera bump will be so monstrously good 99% of people are never going to make full use of it.