@GITNE - this is fair feedback, and generally we agree. For example, as you know we recently added wide angle lens support and default to that on iPhones to capture as much as possible. We also recommend this phone mount (we specifically tested a number of them to find ones that would help with proper positioning of the phone with wide angle enabled to reap the benefits you mention).
It’s also worth noting that as part of this feature we only allow zooming up to 5x which is an optical zoom on iPhones (05x, 1x, 3x, 5x are all optical - digital is only used in-between - so the end result is quite sharp). As you mentioned phones are lowest barrier entry point for new contributors - and when folks are getting started they may not have bought the right phone mount yet, so this is a way to help them gently onboard.
Overall though, fully agreed with your recommendations to capture as wide FOV as possible and to avoid zooming when possible - which we’ll continue to emphasize.