Thinking back to around that (2017-2020~) time where my primary phone had basically a stock-ish android camera setup.

I don't think the phone took very good photos almost all of the time, but there's this weird aesthetic that it sometimes nailed (sort of a dreaming in space kind of feeling) where the HDR would combine to make something quite unique and appealing, while also being a signature to these kinds of cheap phones.

I get oddly nostalgic when I see the "overprocessed HDR" aesthetic in other peoples clearly cheap android phone photos, I suppose in the same way that some people adore the ascetic that very cheap/broken film cameras give