“Superzoom crapbox”?
Er, OK.
I carry travel zooms now, after watching my wife get better shots than me with a 480mm equivalent “superzoom crapbox”, while I got poorly framed (but nice to pixel peep!) shots with my enthusiast compact.
I guess if you are shooting flowers in the yard, you can endlessly reframe shot after shot. It doesn’t work like that for me in the wild, either traveling in unknown cities where there are buildings on a distant hillside I would like to fill the frame, or the other day, when I went for a walk and got some wide-angle shots of a forest, and also closeups of a cardinal that had a nest.
Fancy-shmancy fast-lens no-zoom compacts? Been there, done that, still do it sometimes, but my eyes are wide open to the advantages of travel zooms.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.