Would you buy it if iPhone air didn't have a camera at all?
I would.
Those people in the nuclear industry would absolutely flip out...
If it was like $200 or $300. Not having the ability to snap pix at any time I want is a noticeable reduction in capability. It would also lose the ability to annotate what I'm looking at with AR/informative labels, etc.
Would be hard to navigate society without access to QR codes unfortunately