Sorry, your no is a little confident -- and you're entirely wrong. A camera generating a RAW file for you is doing much more than just sending you the data from the binned pixels. Where you want to step in on that line determines how much control you have.

It's the reason some still pick RED vs Alexa. Your RAW File & Colour Science aren't just up to you, they're carefully mastered with an ODT -- On Device Transform.

Also, let's see how Nikon go in the near future with Snapdragon.

These images are 90% shot on iPhone -- raw and edited in Darkroom on iOS. https://instagram.com/grant.pal