Well, it's not illogical. It's a logical consequence of how human perception interprets "viewing a thing with a notch" greatly different from "using a thing with a notch".
If you're a driver, you're familiar with this; photos of cars clearly show these obstructing pillars left and right of the windshield, but in practice when driving, you get so used to working around them that you don't take conscious note of them anymore. That's why Apple said about the iPhone notch "trust us, you won't care", and sure enough, their users mostly don't care.
(Yes, it's still a good idea to reduce the blind spot of pillars, since lots of drivers don't bother looking around them to see if there's a person there. But the good drivers that do look around them still don't notice the pillars – they just move their head and look around them without taking much conscious notice of the pillar or the workaround.)
I could imagine this is because we need to be able to pay attention through a forest, and so whether or not there's a tree blocking one arc-degree of your field of view is ultimately irrelevant to paying attention in a forest, and that car pillars (and cracked windshields, and dangling objects hanging from rearview mirrors) fall into the same general bucket.