I completely agree and that's my problem. My point is best highlighted by this story from Steve Jobs' biography, which I do not believe would ever happen with an iPhone X:
“Jobs was stired by a story by Michael Noer on
Forbes.com. Noer was reading a science fiction novel on his iPad while staying in a rural area north of Bogota, Colombia , when a poor 6-year-old boy came up to him. Curious, Noer handed him the device. With no instruction, and never having seen a computer before, the boy started using it intuitively. He began swiping the screen, launching apps, playing a pinball game. Noel wrote: “Steve Jobs has designed a powerful computer than an illiterate 6-year-old can use without instruction, if that isn’t magical I don’t know what is.”"
Not talking about more advanced features like Siri, I mean the basics of using the phone. Swipe to unlock, launching apps, going home from wherever you are etc. And iOS 7 didn't change the functionality in that way, it was a UI redesign, I'm talking about UX.