> compared to the loudness wars

I would like to compare it to "cinema mode" on my television.

I sometimes turn on cinema mode, but although the colors have more subtlety, nuance and accuracy... dimness just doesn't compare as well as you think to a much brighter picture.

sigh.

That said, it's a little annoying that the apple camera app doesn't capture raw out-of-the-box.

You can do raw out of the box - just need to enable it in settings