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The notch occupies otherwise wasted space in the menu bar - how is that not purely positive?

Well, unless you’re only ever using text edit, the menubar is there for er, menus? It’s going to be interesting to see the gymnastics around this

There was at least one shot of it -- it'll be a gap in the menu, with top-level menus flowing around the notch if necessary.

It’s not really clear what your point is. There is plenty of room in the menu bar for the camera to be in the middle.

Is there? Photoshop has a bunch of menus, not sure what they're planning to do. See this screenshot for example:

I did notice Xcode used up all the space before the notch:

And apps that don't have a traditional Mac menu just have a black bar hiding the notch:

I actually don't know what Mac OS does today when it runs out of room for menu items.

Menus are positioned by the OS, presumably they won’t collide with the notch. There is no problem.