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At some point you need to be happy with what you have and just enjoy the art of photography. I think all the cameras over the last several years are quite good and the technology is relatively stable. Skip a generation or two and move out getting a new camera to every 5 years or so.

Correct. The a6000 had to be replaced because it was not mature. The a6300 will last much longer. It could even last (almost) forever if it had IBIS, or if I still had the (bad) SEL1670Z which at least had stabilisation.

Occasionally, something is so special that I take my phone out just to take a pic so I can text it to someone. Which only happened once on vacation. Nonetheless! ... etc ...

My relationship with taking photos and my smartphone in short: I hardly know how to shoot with it! And in any case I can just do basic shooting, I don't know how controls work. Basically I do that only when I'm around with no cameras and there's e.g. a tourist post with some information about a monument or a map with trails. As you pointed out, quick sharing it's the basic idea with a smartphone, but I never do quick sharing. My workflow indeed is quite slow and related to postprocessing with the laptop.