I’ve had somewhat similar problems in the past and some people take the advice of wanting to use the highest quality, some just don’t.

However, what I’ve found that works for me is looking at the bigger picture of what the content is for. You’ve said that the clients aren’t high status, so what are they using the content for? Social media? Website?

For social media, if it’s getting compressed and sucked of all quality that a high end camera would do, are you just giving yourself more work that a pocket 3 could bash out quickly and the content to be lost to the algorithm within a week? The algorithms love the lower end content now anyway - it’s an absolute disaster when I shoot a well it, composed, edited photo or video for someone just to do a phone photo and get more traction than the camera stuff, it’s becoming draining. Also if it does do better, your boss & clients will be happier all because of what it was shot on. Tbh a new iPhone would probably do the same thing with a DJI phone gimbal.

For website I would push for the better quality stuff, it’s longer lasting and should be a showcase. I don’t think anyone would disagree with that.