This seems to be a recurring theme. People aren’t aware of what their devices already are capable of.

Part of that is because it’s sold as accessibility or out of the way enough that people don’t encounter them regularly.

But even then, a lot of the stuff is right there in the photos app (what plant/bug/animal is this) or sign reading and OCR

100%. The iOS vision accessibility APIs are top notch and consistent throughout the system. A simple example, Siri describes the image in the notification if you have announce messages turned on