IDK about you, but I've wanted a "do it all" device since I was a kid, so the "phablet" form factor appealed to me immediately. I can manage my entire home network from my Pixel 9 Pro XL, including SSH, Dockers, and remoting into VMs.

That, and look what size most phones are these days. Most people want the bigger models.

It was never a problem to begin with. Bigger screens are alwaybetter; you can do so much more at once with a larger screen (especially if you actually bother to go into developer options and increase the "minimum width" setting)!

I'll never understand Lemmy's obsession with small screens. Phones are thinner than ever, so you can't even use the "bulky brick" argument anymore! Options are nice, but a large screen is not the end of the world.