I might be the exception here, but in terms of price and feature set I think the current line-up is actually quite compelling. Sure, I myself would never spend $1300 on a phone, but the 128GB iPhone 8 would do the job just fine and $499 is actually quite decent. That would have been $412 in 2007 when the iPhone came out. The fact that they lowered the 11 price compared to the XR launch price also indicates they’ve finally started injecting a well needed dose of reality check.
I’m not a huge fan of having that many iPhone models on sale and this idea of keeping around 3 year old designs just to hit lower price points isn’t exactly my favorite either, but all in all Apple now offers pretty much an iPhone at every price point from $400 upwards.
The one thing I still miss (and why I won’t be buying one myself) is a smaller device. Personally I don’t need a whole bunch of fancy cameras, but I want a phone I can operate one-handedly. I went from a 6 to an SE because of that so obviously the 8 is still too large. There’s been rumors about a new SE, but I think rather than a true SE replacement (small) it sounds like this would rather be an inexpensive device with updated internals (8 replacement).