Technically, I guess.

Unfortunately, we still seem to be very far away from it replacing our usual way of growing meat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zCf4Yup34

This video was exactly what first came to mind when I read “badly understandable dialogues”! It bothers me that as we got better mics, the actors became more unintelligible instead of the other way as one would predict.

It looks beautiful. Both man made intricate details and natural greenery in one place.

I too was initially wondering that. A comparison with a similar camera to that of the Mars rovers would’ve been more interesting. We have much more capable cams here at home.

“Only” the first two apply to me as I blasphemously love Windows, but I somewhat agree with your observation.

That depends on the phone. I remember some old Samsung flagships using a native 16:9 sensor. That was over at least half a decade ago though. Another device with such a setup I remember would be the Nokia 8 Sirocco.

And, the now extinct Windows phones had atypical arrangement where neither aspect ratios would result in the full usage of the sensor, though 4:3 got closer. The Sony Xperia 1 V has multi-aspect ratios too, afaik, where you’d gain some horizontal FOV at the expense of the same vertically when switching from 4.3:3 to 16:9 or longer.

For the vast majority of the phones and their users out there though, I agree with you. I’ve seen way too many people go with 18-21:9 pictures, probably thinking they’re capturing more of the scene as they see that aspect ratio fill up their screen.