I have a Sony A7 Mark 2 (https://m.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-alpha-7-ii) with a 24-105 lens which I really like. Unfortunately it doesn’t get used nearly enough to justify the price. 24MP, very quick, the full frame sensor does really well in low light. Image quality is stunning and (after proper treatment in Lightroom) blows any phone camera out of the water. Especially when conditions are not ideal and you view the photos on a high resolution screen, like a newer iPad. Top shelf androids and all the iPhones do decent pictures with very little manual work as long as there’s enough (day)light - so I leave the roughly 2kg of full frame camera at home often. It just doesn’t matter much when all you do with the photos is posting them on IG or sharing otherwise online...
This is the thing everywhere, not just in the Philippines. Cameras need to be good enough for social media and IMs and most cameras on phones are good enough for that. If you want to make money you will need something a bit better, if not it just isn't worth the investment for most people.
Camera on my Note 9. Not just because of the picture quality. I think it's 12mp. The stylus pen makes annotating on the pictures easy and it can snap pictures remotely. Warranty claim kickbacks don't happen with good pictures. USB 5.5mm wide endoscope for seeing inside engine cylinders through the fuel injector bore. Only 2mp but that is enough to save a lot of diagnostic labor. Proview 4k security camera system from backstreet surveillance. Caught my neighbor is all I will say
I have a Nikon P900, with X83 optical magnification. I used it when I lived by the sea to photograph distant islands (cheaper and safer than taking a ferry!). The photos showed only vague images of houses (they were about 8 to 10km away) but I did see some landscape features that I could research on google maps. But for general use a phone camera is okay - my Nikon mostly sits unused.