Apple aint degrading they are just keeping the premium things premium such as the upper models like 11 pro / max and 12/13/14 pro maxes if they start giving major camera changes in the lower models do u think people will buy that ?
Some days back i went on a trip with 2 phones vivo x60 which i bought in 2021 and iphone 14 pro .shockingly photos from vivo x60 was way better than 14 pro