Idk about you, but I don’t upgrade my phone year after year. Whenever I decide to get a new phone, my current phone is already several years old. So, it doesn’t matter a whole lot to me how big of an upgrade the current model is from the previous year. If it’s abysmal then I’ll buy the previous year model. If it’s decent enough or the prices are similar, then I’ll get the current year. Either way, both are an upgrade by the time I decide to buy.