https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/20/htc_one_review/

Review We rarely single out midrange phones for special attention here. Most are me-too models that don’t bring anything new to the marketplace.

Exceptions to this rule need a jolly good reason: the Honor 7 dramatically shook up the market in 2015, while the industrial chic BlackBerry Motion was a business-oriented phone (rare) that I only had to charge twice in a week (even rarer).