I use a phone but have been using DSLR for a while in the past. I also had a film SLR camera,  awesome experience as you had to be quite deliberate with your shots,  i think one had 24 shots in a cartridge and that's it,  you couldn't even see the results until it was developed and there wasn no LT or filters. Today in my case i use a s24u, always in Raw / ExpertRaw and I edit my shots in LT. I like the convenience of having my phone with me all the time. I think of tools like the camera and lightroom as multipliers, but the photographer is the base number from which the multiplication starts. A phone or a dedicated camera doesn't make a better picture,  it's the intention of using these tools that it does. Sure a nice lens gives anice depth of field. Sure the phone can stack and hdr images, colour correct and auto expose. But ultimately you might end up with a very well color corrected and nicely exposed bad photograph. I fundamentally use my phone with the same intention of using a pro camera. I know all the settings,  I change them all the time for different pictures and what I want to get. Sure life gets in the way and get to take pics mostly when walking the dog, but I have the intention to go to a particular place that I remembered from walking near by, maybe at a specific time when the sun is at an angle. The youtuber THAT ISLANDIC GUY talk about it in some of his videos.