No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!
I see no reason for recording the obvious.
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.