So true. Not only that, but pulling out my phone and quickly snapping a shot is often better than quickly pulling out my non-phone cameras - especially in challenging lighting conditions.

I absolutely can get better shots with my non-phone cameras, but they take more work.

I understand carrying and taking shot with a DSLR is much more involved than pulling out a phone from a pocket, but have you ever used compact cameras with 1" censor like a Sony RX100 or Canon G9x ?

They both fit in your pocket and startup as fast as you can activate the camera on your phone. Out of habit I usually reach the power button inconsciently when grabbing it from my pocket and the lense is usually extending while my arm is moving in position so it is usually immediately ready to snap a picture.

If you are in a setting where you are almost certain to take picture, a micro four third format also works great and depending on the lense are usually small enough if you are the kind of guy who wears small shoulder or sling bags.

Well now we're getting into the old adage, whatever camera I have with me. I always have my phone and many times have my Z5 or d7100. There isn't much space to add another camera.

The trick is to not take 100s of shots per day, and failing that, filtered out 70-95% of what you shoot, before editing.

I find the best photo before editing is often different than the best photo after editing. Granted that’s probably a skill issue on my part.

you can bulk edit with your adjustments taken from one image and apply to a set of images taken in same lighting, etc

That somewhat depends on three main things: your photography style, your equipment quality, and your skill. If you shoot landscape photos, you almost certainly don't want to be taking 100s of shots per day and should spend more time and effort on composition. If you shoot wildlife action (e.g. birds in flight, especially fast ones like swallows) you'll be taking hundreds to thousands of shots per minute of action (30 shots/second from a high-end body like a Sony a1 or Cannon R5 means 1800 shots per minute, even mid-range bodies take 10 shots/second). If you've got good enough equipment and skill that most of those shots are usable, then there's going to be a lot of sorting to find the ones worth editing.

I don’t use it, so I don’t know, but doesn’t Google Images offer do this to any photo you upload?

If you're making the same or very similar edits to a lot of shots by hand, you don't have to do that. You can create a preset from one shot's edits, then apply it to as many others as you like in a single step.

Yeah, Photoshop has actions too. See, photographers have been doing computational photography too, this whole time. It’s just that we prefer to put it together with a general purpose tool, rather than what formula Apple or Samsung has decided would be best.

Which is the point I failed to touch upon in my smartassed earlier comment about the macro rig. We use most of (maybe all) the same transformations in a tool like Lightroom, but prefer to compose them by hand precisely because the assumptions made by phone camera ISPs are not at all guaranteed to hold over the range of raw images we use our cameras to produce. (They don't even hold over the range of raw images people use phone cameras to produce!)