“For better cameras” like… I don’t see it. Back in the mid 2010s and late 2010s before the bump trend iPhone, Google and Samsung had the best phone cameras, and both were flat and with decent digital zoom and stability (for a phone). If you look at the photo samples for back then and compare it with now the difference is almost imperceptible.
That ugly bump makes big phones even harder to use and weight more now, plus if you’re one of those who never liked using a cover now I bet you’re forced to use one because of the added vulnerability of the bump.
Edit mid 2010s to late 2010s (until the camera bump appears around 2018)
AFAIK, it’s there because they’ve made the rest of the phone so thin, but they can’t make the camera components any thinner.
Incidentally I think the cameras are definitely better and I have plenty of old pictures and videos taken on Samsung flagship phones that agree. Maybe not better in every way, but low light pictures and videos have way less noise these days, and the resolution is higher (whether that actually results in a clearer picture depends).