Especially when you can simply swipe left as an action and go to the camera. Users should be able to edit/remove those buttons in the Lock Screen editor like a widget in the Wallpaper options settings menu.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/access-features-from-the-lock-screen-iphcd5c65ccf/ios

Basic Apple Guy’s MacOS Rancho Cucamonga

https://preview.redd.it/1lxie91sam0c1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab4a170e9ed3e52aba3b78c04d28ad2f07ac0d23

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/os-x-rancho-cucamonga

I highly recommend going to Apple directly with your feedback about this. I am not joking, use the feedback App.

People have more leisure time than liquid income, you had the money to buy it, the time to enjoy it, and choose to waste that time trying hard to find something wrong with it.

Then you opted to waste our time convincing you that you are hallucinating a defect that doesn’t exist.

Walk back into the Apple Store and return it for a refund or try to read up on why the telephoto lens is the most innovative part of the phone (for Apple):

https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-iphone-15-pro-max-has-a-tetraprism-camera-what-the-heck-is-that

Now reply with “I don’t read linked content outside of Reddit.”