It matches my experiences too, FWIW. I've never seen anything out of a phone come close to my ancient D90 with f/1.8 35mm lens - with the caveat, for things that the f/1.8 is good at, portraits mostly.
The computational composition (I wouldn't call it photography) done by modern phones also just looks weird. For example, trying to detect foreground and artificially blur the background, leaving a weird in-focus-yet-distant halo of texture around things.
The computational composition (I wouldn't call it photography) done by modern phones also just looks weird. For example, trying to detect foreground and artificially blur the background, leaving a weird in-focus-yet-distant halo of texture around things.