So I s'pose it's a matter of time before one of us stomps our foot, grimaces, and hollerrs "them thar's fightin' werds!"?
Don't get me wrong, I do love my Mini & SM and actually use all three just about every day. With LR cartos the Mini & SM do perform very closely to the 5v.
I guess it's just a matter of perception and preference. When I got my first 5v, I hadn't yet tried LR cartos on my Mini and was blown away by the warmth, TH, flavor, and thick billowy vapor. It was love at first vape and I think that's why I'm still so smitten.
Truth is, regardless of the voltage, size, or how many batteries it takes, as long as it has the three most beautiful letters of the alphabet etched on the head-cap, I'd give up a testicular appendage to keep it.
Suggesting I give
any of them up would indeed be fightin' words!