Well, I do a massive amount of work on my smartphone, and I used to be of the opinion that the Note line was too big. Seemed silly back when I was a BlackBerry fan. I ran across my old BlackBerry Tour, and it's just so daggone tiny. It used to be that I'd never consider anything like the Note, until I hit the Motorola Photon, and suddenly, a bigger screen became an enticing option.
I graduated from the Galaxy S4 to the Note 5, and smaller options were out the door. I put my devices through the ringer and it just has to be able to keep up.
Right now, I'm using tag team phones, a Samsung J2 Core and my Note 9 from a different carrier that I had to drop service on because I've spent months in the hospital, more in recuperation, and she got me the Core on her line until I can get back to work.
I don't do a lot on it, because it is just too gadawful slow to work on. It's literally as bad as some of the BlackBerrys back in 2012, spending as much as thirty seconds, sometimes longer to load a single web page if there are any graphics. It sucks, big time!
So I'm a big phone guy. I operate a smartphone a lot easier than I do a laptop, by a huge margin. Sometimes, if I really wanna play, I slip my Amazon Fire 8" Tab on my pocket and take it along, the blessing of cargo pants and huge pockets.
I also love a lot of the bells and whistles of high-end phones. I love that they've amped up the power so you can rapidly multi-task. I know some think it's unnecessary, but I've crashed the Core a dozen times this year, and the Note hasn't done that since the day I unboxed it back in August of 2018.
Backtracking is OK, some people only need a simpler phone. But even my former mother-in-law has increased her phone in size and power, especially after I taught her the ins and outs in a couple of visits. She's 77.
By the way, I type tens of thousands of words a day, frequently. I'm a story writer and working on a novel. Recently, I post a story I'd written over a couple of hours, tried to post it to the writers group on Facebook, and it cut off partway through. I took the story into a character counter, pasted it, and was shocked to find it was almost 16,000 words.
I'm looking forward to getting back to work so that I can upgrade to either of the latest Note devices. Just love 'em!