Smartphone & compact photography won't die anytime soon: Here's why

Many people these days have been using compact (point and shoot) cameras, and even smartphones for photography; even pros. However, I'm pretty confident and certain that those devices in particular won't die out because of the higher-end camera market, which has been delivering ever greater technology in their advancing cameras, particularly SLRs, and more recently, MILC (Mirrorless interchangeable lens camera); But I believe that these types of cameras aren't winners by much means, but instead, will most likely be used as an inspiration for companies producing camera phones and compact cameras. SLRs and mirrorless cameras usually have much larger sensors than they're smaller counterparts, and this translates into usually improved lowlight performance, as well as Dynamic Range (DR), and arguably even better color/tonal reproduction. And I think that it is possible to amp up the DR in smaller sensors, as well as other aspects can also be improved upon significantly, such as DOF (and not just artificially produced DOF), and lowlight performance. And, amazingly, my thought is that it won't always be due to better technology as it has to do with sensors, and not necessarily AI either. Instead, I think that manufacturers will decide to soon focus much on multi-image processing, that is, image stacking/compositing, and specifically on how to process image stacks faster in-camera. Specific examples of such processing include focus-stacking, image-averaging, HDR/Exposure fusion, as well as the possibility to create images of extremely high resolution when employing a lens with long focal length. The amount of images that can be processed and/or stacked in rapid succession will be a major determining factor in this technological race for photographic superiority; it may even reach a time when we will be able to take, say, a Full Frame-quality image using a 1" sensor in a matter of seconds; of course you'd still likely need to have plenty of light available for the camera to use short exposures.