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There is a hacked Camera APK that restores features and backports new features to old phones. It's not perfectly stable on my Pixel 2 but its close. Restored Burst shots as a feature (my main goal), brought focus tracking and astrophotography improvements. And it can be installed along side the stock camera.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/google-camera-mods/gca...

And to generic android as well. I get that they want differentiation, but there's serious lack of other implementation in play store. For actually good hdr it looks like there's pixel or nothing. I'd be happy to pay quite a bit to get their new HDR+ on a OnePlus for example.

the pixel phones have specialized DSPs (pixel visual core, pixel neural core) that probably can't be counted on in generic android

That's just a speed improvement though, right? You could do the same in software if you sacrifice the live preview.

true, but why spend the money on man-hours to implement it?

They some times back port these, I am unclear if they will or won't here? Agree it would be awesome!