Photography, like many other disciplines, is very much a multifaceted endeavor. There are numerous ways to make an image. I do not believe that the path chosen in any way makes any image more or less of a photograph. But for me, using the camera, lens, and other equipment to capture the best possible image when I press the release button is a big part of the fun of photography. Many others prefer to accomplish the same result in the darkroom, which is perfectly fine also.

To your question...in my mind, choosing a particular ISO setting is like choosing what film stock to use. Setting white balance (to an extent) is like choosing what specific color film to use. It can also be the same as choosing a filter. My Nikons also give me the specific choice of a yellow, orange, red, or green filter when shooting black and white. Many of the other shooting menu choices can also be mapped to pre-exposure choices that were made in film photography. Others expand on the options available using film. So in my mind, a photographer can use these options and still call the result SOOC.

Now I also have another whole menu with redeye correction, trim (crop), HDR, and other similar choices which correspond to activities usually done in a darkroom to correct shortcomings or otherwise just improve images after exposure. I am still on the fence if images which have been subjected to those actions should be labeled as SOOC. On one hand, they are modifications done in the camera and before downloading. On the other hand, it is hard to deny that they are post-processing...processing done after the exposure. If I do any of those, I will always identify the image as, for instance, no processing other than cropping.

As an aside...one interesting conundrum that I have been seeing on UHH is that photographers who would never use the program mode, because it cedes too much control to the camera, will shoot all day using automatic white balance. Using AWB is not a crime, by any means. But my experience with it is that it creates photographs with a bland, uniform color palette. Because my aging vision means that I do not have quite the color vision facility that I used to have, it is not fun for me to try to go back and fix everything later. I prefer to get it as close as possible when I capture the image and know how it is supposed to be.

These are my thoughts. They carry no intent to influence how anyone else thinks or works. But they work for me.

There are those who like to say that they "get it right in the camera" implying that the digital jpeg version has only been correctly exposed, is well-framed, and has the correctly focal points as to present an image that stands on its own without PP. Or simplified: as produced created by the photographer using his/her imagination, a camera, and a lens.

However, all of my cameras can be manipulated to produce: "in camera HDR", focus stacking, panoramas, various scene modes, including monochrome, monochrome with a Y filter, monochrome with a R filter, vivid, and various film simulations. And that's only the short list.....

So are all of these also SOOC? If not, where does one draw the line?

So that's my discussion topic of the day....

When I shot film, that is 21/4 Rollie. I would spend hours setting up for a shot, then process the black and white film myself, I would then spend more hours working in my lab to get the best end result and then I would print it with my enlarger. I would select the proper paper, and chemicals to produce the affect that I desired. Out of the camera in those days would simply mean laying the negative on the print paper and getting a contact print. I never did that.
Today, I use a D810. I go through the same steps. I spend a great deal of time planning my shots, then I do the actual shoot. I download onto my computer, choosing only the best shots. Then I go to my lab or post processing whether it is Affinity, Lightroom or Photoshop. Some shots are good as I shot them but most need some sort of adjustment. This is what I require of myself. I don't require it of others. But I do require that the end product, with my name on it, is the very best that modern technology will allow me to produce.