[callalex]

While software certainly has improved phone photography, the sensors have gotten much much larger, and the lenses even more so (phone cameras are thicker and heavier now than they ever were in the 2000s) which is where much of the improvement comes from. I wouldn’t really point to that as an example of software eating the world.

[ArtTimeInvestor]

I'm not very experienced in photography, but I would be very surprised if phones have caught up with cameras in terms of sensor size and lens size.

In regard to lenses, I can see that the phone lenses are still much smaller than those of standalone cameras.

And since cameras are less size constrained, why wouldn't they put bigger sensors into them?

And it's not only about lenses and sensors. All of the buttons and wheels are now pixels. And you can edit your photos right on a phone. And put them on social media. No teenager would ever swap their phone for a device without software to put the photos directly on Instagram.