The 'bezel' (im assuming you're talking about the notch) does not impeed the screen real estate. The section where the menu bar is rendered and where the notch intrudes is actually extra screen size on top of the 16:10 screen.
People are complaining about getting extra screen real estate.
Well yes, but have you ever heard anyone who liked the notch on their phone?
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.
People are complaining because screens have been fucking rectangular since forever! And this change forces klunky software compromises for no good reason.
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.
People are complaining about getting extra screen real estate.