…and compare it with now the difference is almost imperceptible.
Imperceptible to you.
Your argument that phones without zoom lenses had, ‘decent digital zoom and stability (for a phone)’ only serves to highlight your inability to perceive the difference having actual optical zoom makes when zooming.
Crazy how one would even make this argument without actual image examples, unless that kind of research only led to realizing one’s argument is wrong.
There is still two weeks left of summer, you chill