Used can be a good option but things often hold their value pretty well.
And to Fuzz’s point, pulling out a like Fuji and taking a few snaps definitely feels more interesting than using the iPhone. But against Fuzz’s point, the camera button is right on the home screen and the viewfinder is the entire screen, so it takes me about 1 second to line up a great shot when I want one, and I don’t have to fumble around with a camera bag or hang it around my neck.
It’s definitely a hobbyist kind of thing. What I would say, personally, is that if you want the options of zoom, shooting at night or in darker rooms, shooting portrait, etc. and your budget is $500-$1500, upgrade your phone. You are not going to get a camera that “does it all” for that price, at a quality substantially better than your phone (which has the added benefit of not just being something you use for taking photos).
Once you get into DSLR, it’s really the lenses that make the difference and make the photos, and those are $500 to a few thousand by themselves. So you have to buy the body, and then the lenses, and then you have to deal with switching lenses around or going with a lens that can hit a few different distances, which generally aren’t as good imo.
You can get something nice like a Sony RX100 if you want zoom, but that’s coming in a little over $1500, and I really feel at that point you have to start considering how seriously you want to take it and how much time you want to spend with those photos.
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