The perfect form factor. Touch ID instead of Face ID. It's the absolute pinnacle of the iPhone models, based on the iPhone 6.

I don't understand why I can't just have this same phone with a slightly better camera. That's all I want.

I’ve said this many times when this came up.

The Mini didn’t fail because it was too small. It failed because it wasn’t small enough.

I want a small phone that I can use single-handedly. A smaller screen is a tradeoff. The Mini had the disadvantage of a smaller screen plus the disadvantage of not being usable with a single hand. Because of that, I never bought one - if I’m going to be handicapped anyway, I’d rather have a larger screen.

The correlation I saw a while back during one of the debates about the trend towards phablets was it depended a lot on your usage patterns.

Are you someone who tends to use your phone while sitting down? Larger form factor

Are you someone who tends to use your phone standing up, especially while walking? Smaller form factor.

You have absolutely no idea how many people are curious which iPhone I have

Yeah, I've noticed this. Many women also wear clothing where they either have no pockets at all, or the pockets are more decorative than functional, small enough that a truly small phone would have trouble fitting (certainly not the 5.5" iPhone "mini", which is hardly mini at all).

Not small enough to be worth the tradeoffs though.

I'm genuinely interested. Which ones?