>>4093990>the more you can avoid the in-phone processing the better your photos will actually look.Completely disagree with that.
RAWs from phones are pretty terrible, and there's no chance in hell 99.9% of photographers will even match the jpeg engine (and the whole imaging pipeline) of a photo, editing manually.
How are you even supposed to match with a single RAW from a tiny sensor, an imaging pipeline that takes multiple shots in a fraction of a second to do denoising, increase DR (or resolution even), and use AI/machine learning/whatever to apply advanced masking and non-trivial adjustments over said masks, all done and ready in a second?
Work with the phone's settings to fine-tune its pipeline to your taste, don't disregard it completely. Even if it's not fully to your liking after fine-tuning, it'll offer a much better starting point that you could ever hope to reach manually.
The only reason to disregard your phone's jpeg engine, is if you're doing something technical (say for machine vision, medical, scientific photography, etc.) that you don't care about a pictorially good result and you want the most unbiased output.
