Have people's hands gotten any bigger over the last 12 years?
Have phone use cases changed in the last 12 years?
For me personally? No.
Kind of. A lot of people use their phone as their primary and sometimes exclusive computing device and no longer use a desktop computer or laptop.
Depends on their age.
I bet the age of the users has gotten older over the last 12 years and for all those people over their mid-40s with presbyopia the small phones are unusable
It's normal for there to be different market segments for different people with different needs and priorities. This "one size fits all" approach is beyond ridiculous.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 was "normal" sized when it came out 10 years ago. If you're the kind of person that gets a new phone every 4 years or so, the Galaxy 5 was 2 phones ago, so it doesn't feel that far from normal IMO.