When you do some math.
8 billion people with smartphones with cameras, 100s of millions of photos uploaded per day.
billions uploaded per week
Every week
For years
The statistical odds of your photos been the best of the billion photos that week is very very very very very low.
Add in a backlog of about 5 years of this and you are competing with something like a trillion photos.
You better have you own vision or thing to say because you are on a highway to destination fucked if you plan to beat the trillion photos by just copying whats already there.
In summary, photography is evolved now to be only for people who like photography or have something to say. If you are just mindless drone 1 billion taking the same old photos of nothing then yeah, no amount of buying camerars will matter jack shit, your photos are guaranteed irrelevant.