It's a large camera grafted to the aging 920. Of course there will be backlash. The 925 and 928 had backlash just recently for being basically prettier versions of the 920 on other networks. The 920 is EOL (end of life) and is ancient in smartphone terms, especially the specs. This is what doomed Nokia to begin with. Symbian couldn't handle higher specs, so they abandoned it and moved to Windows Phone. Even the venerable 808 Pureview was running an ancient single core processor and 360p. 360p! That's crazy. Even dirt cheap budget phones were 480p with dual-core processors. But Windows Phone is turning out to be as bad as Symbian in many ways. Slow to adapt. Microsoft is in a very very distant third behing Android and iOS, and the blip may just disappear without anyone noticing.
For those ignorant of specs and can barely follow a letter change in the name of a new phone, lets use the iPhone as the lowest bar. Most users of the iPhone have no idea what is under the hood. You could say the same thing about Lumia phones, that it doesn't matter, as long as it works. But the fact that we are in the Lumia 1020 forum and going gaga over the 41MP camera speaks for itself how important specs are. Nokia has no mindshare, and they can only win it with being close to the same spec levels as Android. Software on the iPhone is heavily optimized, and the apps go there first and work the best there, so specs don't matter as much. The powerful ecosystem speaks for itself. Even so, the iPhone isn't a slouch when it comes to specs. They may not have quad-core yet, but their custom chip designs break benchmarks compared to equally specced devices, and they always have the most powerful GPU for the best 3D games. Nokia and Windows Phone, both with low mindshare and popularity, can't stand to compete with the other two big boys without being at least on parity with specs, since the WP ecosystem is weak already as it is.
I personally don't care about the specs too much as the Lumia 920 base is good enough for me. However, that dinky 4.5" in a sea of Android phones that go up to 6.4" is really disappointing. Do you expect someone like me, who has been buying Android for years, and currently using a 5.5" Note 2, to downgrade to a dinky 4.5"? Even last year's mainstream phones were 4.7/4.8" in Androidville. This year its 5" and 5.2". And don't give me the excuse about size, when Nokia loves to waste so much of the space on useless bezel when they could've placed a bigger screen on the same exact device. Android peeps care about specs more. It's a see of competitors trying to outdo themselves. The iPhone has the luxury of being in its own system and not needing to compete that hard. But in Android, specs are everything. And it should be the same for the not so fledgling WP phones if they want to wrest any marketshare from the dominating Android, because getting it from the iPhone is gonna be like pulling teeth.