I have not run CalyxOS, but on my pixel (in my opinion), Open Camera using DRO already provides much better quality images than the stock camera app for most conditions.
Can OpenCamera take a photo of a flickering sign? it seemed to me that it would wait forever for an image to stabilize before taking a picture. It's a great app for a classic way of taking a photo, but all modern smartphone camera applications capture everything 100% of the time and only apply some ML and pick the best shit out of a samples collected aroumd the time shoot button was pressed. I tried to live with OpenCamera for ages, but it's very slow to operate and doesn't support my wide angle camera at all. It's low light performance is poor and it is very slow even in the best of conditions. And it was buggy very often. 3/10, sometimes pictures were made, most often in a frustrating manner.
It is definitely slow in DRO mode. I have not had it act buggy on me. When I could use it from intent on android 10, it was far less buggy than the google camera app, which does not work well with intents - reopening without sending picture back on confirmation often, etc (although there have been some improvements on that end in recent updates).
I am talking about google camera app that came out of the box on my pixel. I take a few hundred pictures a day for work, I am forced to use it due to their stupid intent policy on Android 12, and I frankly hate it.
