This is fine, and I can take good shots but at the same time? I only care about this level of shot most of the time too!
But then instead of a 20MP image, which:
* takes more space, and ergo, more flash drive space * more space to store, to backup, to send * is made 20MP by inserting fake data
Why not have a 2MP image, which is real, and let people's end-use device "fix" it? Because all that post processing can be done when 2x or 4x the view size, too!
Because advertising.
And that's sad. We'd rather think we have a better pic, and destroy the original.
And the space thing is real. Because, that same pic gets stored in gmail with 20 people, backed up, kept in all the devices, and so on!
And the LOL of it all, is that I bet when it is uploaded to facebook... it gets downsized!
There's nothing wrong with that until people start assuming they're lossless (like Huffman encoding) which they definitely are not. Unfortunately the general public doesn't understand the difference.
That's me. I'm a lousy photographer, as evidenced by all of the photos I shot back when film actually recorded what you pointed it at. My photography has been vastly improved by AI. It hasn't yet reached the point of "No, you idiot, don't take a picture of that. Go left. Left! Ya know what, I'm just gonna make something up," but it should.
I imagine there will remain a use case for people who can actually compose good shots. For the remaining 99% of us, we'll use "Send the camera on vacation and stay home; it's cheaper and produces better pictures" mode.