People are complaining about getting extra screen real estate.
I have one on mine and while I don’t particularly dislike it, I’d certainly rather not have it.
Which is sort of my point in Apple losing touch. They stopped changing things in ways that I ended up liking, and I use myself as a reference because I tend to be rather ordinary in my consumption.
Maybe my anecdotal experience is completely wrong, but I have never heard anyone who were happy about the notch on their phone.
If they made a triangle of extra screen area jut out on the right, you'd get extra screen space too. I bet people would still defend it not because "it's extra screen" but in reality because it came from Apple.
The fact that people are so willfully ignorant of that is amazing to me. The Apple-think bubble is stronger than I thought.
They could have just not extended the screen and had a larger bezel. I don't see the issue.