> Cameras are designed to capture & store the light in a way we can interpret later. They intentionally weren’t designed to edit or interpret the light and make corrections.
That's one thing, but still there are many features of the camera firmware that people want to have, and cameras failed to deliver. One of such thing was apps - Sony provided few in some of their camera, but next model removed them, because they couldn't implement that in a model-agnostic way. They just don't get software.
Depends on the market segment. People wanting apps on their cameras have very capabale smartphones now. People who want cameras, and not phones or computers one can use to take pictures with, have highly capable cameras without apps because they don't need nor want those software on camera. And guess what, photography is more popular than ever, and everyone is happy, including camera makers it seems.
That's one thing, but still there are many features of the camera firmware that people want to have, and cameras failed to deliver. One of such thing was apps - Sony provided few in some of their camera, but next model removed them, because they couldn't implement that in a model-agnostic way. They just don't get software.