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You have a white menu bar that suddenly just gets cut off by a black square, its distracting and jarring. I can assure you the people that are giving up the entirety of length of this bar to not have the black portion stick out aren't worried about "waste".

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Yes, which is why it makes some sense to use TopNotch (mentioned in sibling comments) which turns the menubar black and "hides" the notch completely. Then the menu labels and icons are more easily seen as part of a truly separate "new second display". This solution is also well tested in mobile devices with a notch-like screen cutout. In fact, even the latest Apple iPhone Pro models resort to adding a black area ("dynamic island") to hide the front-facing camera cutout.

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