Image quality is overvalued when everybody use tricks to post-process their images.

Behind "allows the user to control image quality" we could have brighter dawns + extra aeroplane (that wasn't here), changing clothes tones to corporate colors, putting more red in blood or more sad in faces, eliminating objects or people, adding either perfect skin or a frown and eye bags in the face of a politic, etc, etc...

The "decisive moment" currently is not recorded, is created from scratch.

Historic or journalistic value on the other hand is not necessarily about image quality.