If it's any consolation Al, I can feel a bit the same way.

I did for example write an Android app to enable my printing to CUPS needs and still use it. I can (thanks to people hacking the protocol) write my own code to talk to our Visonic alarms system. I?m not completely tech clueless with tech but it moves further away from me and AI???

I was surprised when I found my basic (WileyFox Swift 2) had a finger print reader. Even more recently I had some (abandoned) idea to play with nfc and smart cards and bought a cheap read/writer on Amazon to play with only to find my phone could use them (albiet, pretty unreliably ? Pip's 2012 Nerxus technology is better with the cards that came with the external thingy)

As you mentioned cameras, I still prefer to have my small Panasonic Lumix with me if I think there is the off chance of a photo and would prefer to maybe update that one day (if needed) than considering trying to afford to keep pace with a capable camera on a (presumably high end) phone.

I don't know where I am, some sort of mix of luddite but with some sort of interest in tech and some form of lack of interest at the same time?