What Happened To The iPhone 9?

So, a question that I saw all the time is “what happened to the iPhone 9?”, now, there’s a couple of different ways to go about looking at it, first of all, in my head at that time I really do think that Apple was really trying to switch away from the numerical name of their specific devices, I think they really wanted to go away from the numbers and go to letters, obviously that was wrong, but that may have been what they were trying…