Whoever wrote this must be joking or not as competent about electronics as they think. There's praises to be sung about smartphone cameras, don't get me wrong - there is an unbeatable convenience, they've gotten usable after 15 years of development, and AI is definitely improving photos taken with smartphones. Counterpoint? No matter how much tweaking, how much time spent editing, no matter what you do, you WON'T get the same pictures out of a smartphone. Even with AI, photos have artifacts and noise in many of the pictures you take, and produce a JPEG that is what it is. A DSLR, on the other hand, lets you step down to ISO 50, let in heaps on light with a big lens, and gives you a raw image to work with that is sharp from edge to edge. And, don't even get me started on video - phone videos are HORRIBLE compared to cameras, because the AI or image cleaning happening on phones takes heaps of information for a photo. It wouldn't be able to do that consistently for every video frame on the fly. Not to mention that heavily relying on AI can give you inconsistent images back to back. No wedding is gonna be shot on iPhone/android, and Hollywood is not going to approve making a movie with a phone camera. The fact is, DSLRs have a sensor at least 40x bigger, lenses that have true, actual depth of field, and colors that you control. People said this back when the iPhone 5 came out, and they'll say it another 20 years, but the fact is, the moment you replace my Sony A7IV with a phone camera is the moment I'll take you out back and we'll go 1v1. I might lose, but I won't go down without a fight.