Digicam photos > iPhone photos
I don't know about you, but taking pictures with my iPhone camera has always been a drag. I look at the pictures I take with my iPhone and I think "man I would never ever want to print this out, let alone look at this picture in 10 years". I'm no photographer by any means, but iPhone photos have just looked very iPhone-y to me recently. It's either that, or, hear me out now, it's all that pesky digital image processing that give iPhone pictures that distinctive washed-out look that makes them look like a watercolor painting.
Enter the digicam.
I've got a 10+ year old digicam, a Samsung TL105. I found it in some old box at home after my younger relative was talking all about how digicams are making a comeback. At first I had doubts, but over the last year I've taken it on many outings, and taken many many pictures. And it turns out, those pictures look a LOT better. At least when it comes to my eyes. No more watercolor look, and no more weird proportions when it comes to a person's face(I can't be the only one who thinks this... right?). Among other things, I think the blinding flash that comes with taking a photo with a digicam really contributes to the great photos that come out of the little thing. Without that bright flash, yeah I can't lie, the photos from the TL105 simply don't look the greatest, but turn that flash on and suddenly all your photos look like pictures you'd actually want to print, or look back on, 10 years from now.
That old digicam isn't without its drawbacks. The photos often look a little worse for color, draining the color out of someone's face because that blinding flash just has a tendency to do that. But hey, that's what filters are for! Then you've got to transfer the photos manually by taking out the SD card and plugging it into an adapter to transfer to your phone/computer. Oh the horror! You've also got to deal with seeing dead pixels if you zoom into pictures. My digicam has plenty of those, but you only see them if you zoom into the photo, or if the background is very dark.
I do think that not all digicams will look better than an iPhone photo. I personally don't like the look of really low resolution photos. If I can actually see the blockiness or the pixels when I upload a photo somewhere, yeah I'm not about that life. But if your digicam can take pics 5mp or up and has a nice bright flash, then I bet the pictures you take with that digicam will probably look timeless.
All of this is to say that digicams are great, and that I'll be using my digicam to take pictures for years to come.