I do agree with you for the most part, BUT not on the FaceID part. Of course it's convenient in everyday use, but I just cannot justify the lack of TouchID. What was the big deal with putting it on the rear of the phone? You have to consider the unlocking mechanism to have a bit broader use than solely unlocking the phone, which takes me to why I hate this particular 'feature' of the model X.

The drawbacks of not having TouchID are the only thing stopping me from getting the X. I had the pleasure of living in a civilised country (Sweden), which nowadays has one service (authorisation app) that's used to log in basically everywhere (banks, institutions, PO sites) and accepting all kinds of stuff (transfers, tax returns, selling a car, digital signature etc) - it is called Mobilt BankID.

The thing is, the creators of this incredibly genius tool noticed, that FaceID is much easier to trick into believing you're the owner of the phone (which has already been demonstrated many times), and thus not as safe as TouchID. That is why they do not support FaceID in their app. And that is why iPhone X owners now have to type their 8+ character long password into the app every time they want to do basically anything on the web, instead of just touching the fingerprint sensor. There are days where I use the BankID app 50+ times. TouchID saves me lots of time and I'm not willing to sacrifice that just to have a 'cooler' phone (it still basically does all the same things as the 7, just a bit quicker).

I don't want to go back to year 2012 when there still was no quick way to authenticate while still having a secure password. I want to go forward, or at least stay where I was for the past 5 years, but Apple is just not letting me do that with their new phone.