Lots of apps gives you other options for how to process the image data.
I've had a bunch of "high-end" digital SLRs and they (and the software processing the raw files) do plenty computational processing as well.
I completely agree that all else being equal it's possible to get photos with better technical quality from a big sensor, big lens, big raw file; but this article is more an example of "if you take sloppy photos with your phone camera you get sloppy photos".
That's not a healthy / functioning open source community. Less than 30 people have made more than 10 commits; most of the 160 were "drive by" who fixed a single small thing.
It doesn't really tell you that, not yet. You didn't wait long enough for chronyd to decide.
All your output here shows is that all the servers are equally reachable since you started chronyd (very recently, except the NIST server) and the Facebook server had the most similar time to what is on your system.
For the aaplimg service, you'd be better off using the general hostname than a specific server that appears to be on a different continent than you.
I do use the generic time.apple.com entry along with other "official" names in my chrony.conf. I think my use of ODoH may be the reason why I'm getting systems further than expected. Will have to dig into it a little further.
pool time.cloudflare.com iburst nts maxsources 2
server virginia.time.system76.com iburst nts
server ohio.time.system76.com iburst nts
server oregon.time.system76.com iburst nts
server time.windows.com iburst
server time.apple.com iburst
server time.facebook.com iburst
server time.aws.com iburst
server time.nist.gov iburst
I know it's unlikely to be you, but if you know anyone concerned about someone who had access to their phone tracking them (or other malfeasence), Apple published a "Personal Safety User Guide":
I use 26.x on an "original" 8GB M1 MacBook Air and it's as fine as it ever was.
(I also have a MBP, various Mac Mini's and other desktops, so it's not that I'm just used to everything being slow).