Inadequate response to be sure. Those of us from film days recall fully manual cameras with minimal settings available and did work that often was superior to all these digital cameras. Many roll film cameras were rather simple in way of features yet, we got the job done.
I am not much of a fan of phone cameras but I would never consider then worthless at any level and have seen very impressive images from time to time. As for the Nikon D500, it lost out to a much smaller mirrorless camera in 3 out of 5 types of testing so it is not the end all either. There are more and more features coming to the camera parts of phones and it is making a huge dent in the camera market.