You
Is RAW worth the storage for holiday photos?
ChatGPT
For photos you will edit, yes; for the rest it is a tax you pay forever. A practical middle ground is RAW plus JPEG on trips and JPEG only for everyday shots, then discarding the RAWs you never opened after a year.
You
My edits look wrong on the phone.
ChatGPT
Untagged exports assume sRGB and phones do not. Export with the profile embedded and edit on a display you have calibrated at least once. Perfect agreement is not achievable, consistent-enough is.
You
Is there a simpler version that gets most of the benefit?
ChatGPT
Yes: do the first step, skip the automation, and revisit in a month. Most of the value is in the first step, and most of the cost is in making it repeatable before you know it is right.