Comment by afzalive

Android already provides the "proxy" system. You never need a permission to ask the camera app to launch and pass back the photo to your app.

It's only because people want to control the camera UI.

It's slowly getting better but the API devs need a way to learn what the apps need to be better.

For example, maybe in the future, we could have an Android OS bottom sheet with the camera view finder instead of an embedded app UI that requires camera permission.

And also, don't forget that these permissions were eventually required because malicious actors like Meta kept surveiling users in the background without their knowledge.