Always seemed like a marketing issue on Apple's part. People have different opinions when they actually see and handle the Mini. Apple appended so many "Pro" and "Max" names to everything which ended up creating a "status symbol" that was contrary to the actual needs of the consumer to have a more reasonably sized phone. "Fablets" weren't particularly popular for that reason, and Apple still managed to lead people down this road.

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permanent-overc 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I think you forgot the history.

Apple was the last hold out with small phones, years after everybody else moved to huge phones.

But even Apple couldn't resist the pressure from the consumers, and eventually yielded.

	▲	layer8 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The mini was released six months after the SE2 was released, which many SE1 owners holding out for a new smaller iPhone had already migrated to. Then Apple presented the mini in a joke-y manner in the keynote, didn’t do any publicity afterwards, and neither did the carriers (because the mini was lower-margin for them I presume). Lastly, the iPhone 12 gen had particularly bad battery life, which also hurt the mini. With today’s battery improvements, it would be much better (as demonstrated by the iPhone Air’s good battery life). Apple could at least have taken the option to make the “e” line mini-sized.
	▲	happymellon 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yet they sold more minis than Google sells Pixels. And somehow we ended up with more Pixels and not minis.