Agreed. This marks a couple articles I've see now calling for the end of the ever increasing phone screen size. Seems the people calling for this are those who've grown so accustomed to smaller form factors they don't even want to admit there's a trend and demand for larger screen sizes. And the fact is, a sizable portion of smartphones users do prefer larger form factors. I myself do, for many reasons: more spacious screens are easier to type on, easier to see content, larger phones fit better in my large hands (I could never live with an iphone, I don't care how well you say it works, every time I hold one I'm afraid its gonna slip right out of my hand, they're just too damn small for me). And the fact is many of these larger phones still remain quite pocketable. I remember reading a review/critique of the Galaxy Note a while back on BGR and all the author did was whine about how it was too big. But sure enough, looking through the comments, several puzzled Note owners had weighed in, all praising the device and wondering what had crawled up the author's butt.
It's like saying don't buy a truck, because its' wheels are bigger than a sedan's. It's just silly. I'll continue to vote larger with my wallet.