Thanks for the video, just a suggestion the audio level on the music is way too loud compared to your dialouge between sections, so I have to keep my finger on mute to avoid getting a blast of loud music.
Vertical video is the worst thing that ever happened to video. How was that born? Was it instagram? No. Simple. People find it safer to shoot video on vertical holding the phone on portrait mode. On horizontal , it takes two hands and risking dropping the phone on the ground. If I were Apple or Samsung, I’d stop that from the beginning by denying video recording right in the OS.
Even a modern APSC can work for these kind of jobs, what’s more important is the skill of the person like you said, lighting, etc. I’ve seen people make better videos with phones than I can with my full frame camera lol. The edit holds a lot of weight too!