It's not even filters. Modern phones heavily rely on post-processing to make a photo not look like ass, because you can't escape physics and to have high quality image, you need a big sensor that can receive a lot of light, perfectly clean lens and stabilization. With neither of those being present due to modern trends at making thin and light devices. So they just guess what you took a photo of and change it to look "decent" without capturing the real image whatsoever. If you look at camera tests of even the most expensive phones you quickly notice that 1)the same photo taken in the same time with the same settings looks completely different. 2)very often fine details like railing or dots are just gone because the algorithm thinks it was an error due to dirty lens 3)no matter the time you spent with it, even if given to a professional photographer a cheap dedicated camera will usually wipe the floor with it.
Also something something, peasants used to have dark skin because they worked in sun and aristocracy had white skin because they stayed inside. Cue the unhealthy obsession in some asian cultures with making sure your skin is as white as possible