What was genuinely smoothed over with little comment in his video was that the best Standard camera shots in good daytime light was the Oppo Find X5 Pro. That's your everyday shots. It was only let down marginally by it's wishy washy selfie camera having come second in Night time shots. Coming in at 4th overall.
I own this phone and can 100% concur with the results I get from this phone.
Best camera is a very small margin looking at results
But we already know this. Budget Pixel line up has had very strong performance in standard screenshot's for a number of years now.
The problem is the lack optical or telephoto zoom and just average video performance (lacked 4k@60 for a while, unsure if fixed yet).
For some reason companies aren't willing to improve zoom by adding telephoto lenses to their budget phones. Maybe it's segmentation (along with lower Hz displays and wireless charging).
Digital zoom sucks. I don't plan on upgrading to a future Pixel A-series phone until they fix zoom and improve video performance.
While phones like the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, Xiaomi 12S Ultra, and iPhone 14 Pro Max are critically regarded as being the best camera smartphones on the market, thanks to their class-leading hardware and advanced computational photography, it appears public opinion without brand bias leans towards an entirely different smartphone: the Google Pixel 6A.