I spent my formative years working in the film finishing industry, prior to moving into IT. I devoted a lot of time to film photography in the late 70's and 80's and i have to disagree a little with some of the points about the "simplicity / purity" of film.
I say this because i knew back then many keen photographers who would spend an age using filters to get the desired effect (including yellow, green, red and UV filters for B&W). They would also spend a lot of time at the print stage (or we would) dodging and burning to get the desired output.
For that reason, my personal opinion, FWIW, is that we are in a golden age of photography or which phone cameras are one small miraculous part.
I sold all my SLR and DSLR gear some years back and just use my phone and a Sony RX-100 these days .
I think photoshop and lightroom are so much easier to use and give better results at the end. HDR gives much better results that the limited contrast range of film. The only thing missing, for me, is the ability to properly reproduce the Kodachrome colour pallete digitally to give that lovely punchy retro look - i havnt ever seen digital match it properley
Film photography is lovely and tactile as an experience, as are vinyl records, but there is no going back for me !!
Have to say i am a bit biased tho, as i spend too many years fiddling with parallel shift and tilt base enlargers trying to fix things and the ever present checking for that whiff of ammonia which meant the dev tanks had become tainted with fix and needed emptying and cleaning .....
All the above is just my thoughts - its neither right nor wrong