The phone is great, but the form factor is terrible. The phone is slippery, hard to pick up and hard to hold in hand. It's such a "looks over function" failure on Apple's part. No wonder that, with iPhone 13, they eventually went back to the old design (with right angles instead of all the slippery roundiness). No we have to wait another 5 years till that form factor trickles down to the SE line.
The ironic part was when android manufacturers started mimicking this design; it was a factor in making me go back to the iPhone. I have had my current one for over a year, and the only falls it ever suffered were from my pocket in some pants when I sit in my office chair and start lazily reclining. If it ever slipped from my hand, it was so rare that I can't remember.
