So a slight difference in bezel size on the forehead and chin triggers one’s asymmetry OCD but a huge notch across two thirds of the top doesn’t?
No, the notch doesn't bother me at all. Whilst I can see why a more pragmatic person may take greater issue with it over a 'chin', it isn't asymmetrical; that's my point. I don't believe for a moment that Apple would entertain the idea of a physical 'chin' precisely for that reason since after all, they deliberately sited the display controller so as to avoid it.
The whole concept of the notch seems to be more hotly debated than the 'chin' and whilst I can see why, I would take more issue with the latter as it was and is avoidable, whereas the notch wasn't and isn’t, unless you compromise on
functional quality as OnePlus have here. I.e., the pop up camera where particles of dust and debris will inevitably enter the phone over time and cause damage and where facial recognition is essentially pointless. If this method of hiding the camera was considered reliable, more mainstream manufacturers would have copied it from Vivo and Oppo.
Yes, Apple could have taken the approach that Samsung did with the S8, but that wouldn’t be distinctive enough for Apple and would have appeared to Joe public as a direct copy of Samsung’s design, even if that obviously couldn’t possibly be the case.
Put simply, with the current inability to hide the camera module, the notch (in
some form, even if it’s just the camera) is a necessity, whereas the chin isn’t; that’s why it bothers my ‘OCD’!
Regardless, it still appears to be a decent phone and the question of how far a company should go to sacrifice one aspect of functional quality to increase another (i.e. screen to body ratio) is an interesting debate that shows how far the industry has come.
