Digital photography

The evidence says otherwise.

..like h2o just said it's hardly "evidence" that everybody and their mother is taking pictures with their iPhone now.

As I said: I think for some tasks phones are very suitable - for a lot of others they are not.
Aside technical limitations - what you call "traditional handling" is actually pretty important for people who are photographing seriously.
Some really want a camera with focus / aperture rings, dials at just the right places etc. - this is very very different to tapping around on an iPhone screen.

Just had a look how this tedious argument started in the first place -
it was you stating that compact cameras are all of a dated concept now that phones are so good.
Which is true, from the standpoint that a lot of people today do not buy a compact camera anymore as they're happy with their phone.
There are fewer and fewer people who need / want / appreciate the advantages of a real camera, even if it's just a compact one, so yeah.