Small phone vs. larger phone is a very simple tradeoffs calculation.

Large phone: good screen, bad ergonomics Small phone: small (thus worse) screen, best ergonomics

I'm willing to pick the second option above.

Unfortunately the Mini is somewhere in the middle: smaller screen than the larger phone - thus worse in that aspect -, combined with worse ergonomics than an actually small phone. It's the worst of both worlds.

I don't know about other things, but ever since the iPhone 5 I've been wanting another model that I could use with a single hand. The Mini was never that, so why would I sacrifice a good feature (larger screen) for... nothing in return?

It's not like enlarging the screen where you can at least generalize it by scaling everything up and it's still useable.

With shrinking screens, you have to decide on tap target and content size minimums. It's quite an undertaking that needs to pay in the market.

Actually, yes. The mini already has limited space to work with, they had already to shrink the MB, the battery. It would take much more effort to put a pro camera into it. Also those camera do heat up.

Personally, i think the camera setup on ip13mini is fine.

This is a very funny typo, considering the topic at hand.

But yeah, I think I stopped being happy with phone sizes when they started going beyond 4" or so. It's hilarious to me that they can make a phone that's ~5.5" and call it "mini".

I'm an Android guy, and had high hopes for https://smallandroidphone.com/, but the guy who was originally driving it is running his resurrected Pebble company now, and there's been basically no useful activity in the Discord for at least a couple years now, so I assume it's dead.

In any case, the Apple Watch has a much smaller screen and absolutely horrendous ergonomics for everything but the simplest use cases.

So, to answer your question: no.