I would absolutely love to see some acknowledgment of this issue from Apple. I think it's more likely "benign neglect" than deliberate sabotaging of the web as a platform, but this issue has persisted forever. I have a startup that depends on standards-based remote video collection via the web, and it's more than a bit frustrating that in 2021 iOS still downsamples all videos collected via HTML Media Capture to 360x480. What a waste of such powerful cameras! I've been an Apple fan forever (I even used to work at 1 Infinite Loop), so it pains me when to have to tell customers to use Android for better video quality when capturing videos via web forms.

There's an open, unassigned Webkit but about this same issue: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197216