Ultimately the disagreement is primarily on the fact that Apple goes very far out of their way to hide the concept of a file and filesystem from the user.
The wobbling one is minor, in all fairness.
I shudder at notion of feeling compelled to group every photo I take into exactly one folder. A directory tree makes very little sense for organizing everyday photos. If I for some reason had a natural temptation to do this, I'd be grateful to Apple for discouraging it in their Photos app.
The iphone 16's camera bump is 3.5mm. Short of making your own case that makes the bump a Pixel like bar, that wont be solved by just sticking a case.
On photos, it is indeed a very personal topic to many. In particular someone taking dozens of random pictures everyday won't have the same use case as someone being a lot more deliberate for each picture for instance. A one size fjts all approach isn't helpful IMHO.
Why even have a bump? Make the phone thicker by exactly that amount and increase the battery. Then the phone is flat and has a better battery life. Are there uses who actually prefer a bump?
Speaking for myself, I'm fine with it on Pixel phones.
I'd be happy with more battery and no bump if:
- phone makers gave up on the glass backs and metal, and made the body plastic (no more "premium" feel for the sake of it, I don't want heavy and fragile materials)
- the physical durability was balanced with the additional weight: dropping the phone the wrong angle shouldn't mean a guaranteed cracked screen.
The current Pixel9a would be near perfect balance for me, if they gave it better cameras and internals instead of making it a budget phone.
Given that 3 years later they have stopped producing phones with bumps, I guess people really prefer battery to bumps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like others a case has always made the bump a complete non-issue for me. My iPhone has never wobbles when laid back down on a table.