[__jal]

> And for most people it seems to work satisfactorily

Most people apparently don't look at their pictures.

The "enhanced" photos I've gotten from the Iphone for the last few models have just been getting worse. They look OK if you don't look too closely, but then they're just wrong. Blurry details on the same focal plane as crisp ones, crappy details with translucency, hair or anything else that confuses the "foreground/background" detector, they're just bad.

My DLSR will be in service for quite a while longer.

[alistairSH]

Same experience here. My guess is most people view their photos on their phones, via Instagram or Facebook. Rarely are photos looked at in full size on a high quality monitor.

I have no intention of giving up my Olympus mirrorless system. I'll probably add at least one more lens to my collection next year - I've been relying on my 12-40 f2.8 for portraits, but I'm liking what I've read about the Sigma 56 f1.4.

[month13]

The watercolour effect from the de-noiser in iOS results in watercolour-esque patterns in the final image, and washes away most of the fine detail at 1:1.

FWIW, I have an iPhone X. The watercolour trend started around the iPhone 5s, IIRC.