...as long as they keep offering a smaller screen too... not ALL of us want the bigger screen.
Not saying it will happen with iOS, but when the average consumer is given the choice, they tend to go with the bigger screen:
http://www.statista.com/topics/840/smartphones/chart/1396/android-phone-sales-by-screen-size/
Just by being on this website, we've all demonstrated we're not average consumers. The average consumer buys whatever is shiniest without a care in the world for things like hardware specs, etc.
There are a LOT more average consumers than people like us...so naturally, their opinion matters more.
Hate to say it, but the small screen camp is just a vocal minority. Hopefully Apple will throw you a bone and keep a small screen model around, but if large screens sell better with iOS as they do with android, your days may be numbered.
That said...I honestly do not understand the hatred of 5" screens... my iPhone 5 is so narrow, I can hold it and my fingers completely encircle it and then overlap. When I text horizontally, my thumbs take up 1/2 of the screen and only one line of text is visible between the keyboard and the status bar. And forget typing vertically...It's way too narrow for that.
Web browsing is severely limited because the screen is too narrow to load the entire page AND have legible text, and horizontal brings about the keyboard problem.
When I put it in my pocket, it's so narrow it falls to the side, lodging itself at an angle in my pocket both making it difficult to retrieve and uncomfortable.
It's so thin and narrow with un-ergonomic, squared edges that I constantly feel like it's going to slip out of my hands when I don't have a case on it.
I will concede however that i'm 6'2" with gorilla paws for hands. But I do see plenty of dainty-handed women using massive android phones happily. Maybe the people (who have already demonstrated they're dedicated Apple fans just by being here) who hate large screens have never used one for an extended period of time?