So much has already been written about the iPhone X that it can become hard to process it all. Is the camera “notch” at the top of the screen a big deal? Does Face ID let hackers steal your visage? Will you be lost without a home button?

The answer to those questions is no — but they rather miss the point. The best thing about the iPhone X is that it fits a plus-sized screen into a casing only a little bigger than a standard-sized iPhone. It is no more and no less revolutionary than that.

All the other features ultimately derive from that shift — removing the home button to shrink the overall size; replacing fingerprint authentication with facial recognition; rethinking how you use the touchscreen. And they all work just as well as you would hope for a $1,000 phone.