Your question seems to be based on the assumption that the problem is the digital camera. But it's not.

The key here is composition. When a shot, or, in fact, any image is properly composed, it looks naturally appealing and pleasant to look at because your eye travels through the image comfortably. When the composition is bad, the image literally falls apart and parts of the image start to get in the way.

Digital cameras have been more than capable of producing both technically and aesthetically great pictures for much more than 10 years now. It's true that the latter can be often greatly improved with post processing, but no amount of post can save a badly composed shot, ever.

If you want to become better at photography, I would advise reading some academic literature on the basics of composition for both photographers and artists. Opt for classic works of 20th century instead of modern and often commercialised issues. After all, our perception of composition have been practically unchanged for at least hundreds of years.

Digital is not worse than film or vice versa. It's just different. Like color is different to black and white, or like oil painting is different to the one made with pastels. The truth is, no camera or technique will make your shots great by itself. To make great shots, you have to see them and compose them in your head before you even press the button. And when you learn how to do it the camera becomes only a tool that allows you to capture what you see. That's why great photographers can make a masterpiece with pretty much anything, from top of the line cameras worth thousands of dollars to the most primitive ones like a pinhole camera made out of shoe box.