Apologies, what I meant was "larger than an iPhone 5/5s";

I provided pictures in a sibling comment thread to show what I mean, there's about 20% of a difference between the iPhone 5 and 6, and that size difference is very similar for the mini.

If people wanted to buy a phone that was the size of the 6, they would have purchased the SE from 2020, which was that roughly that size.