I love the DI. The Pro Max is tall enough that not being perfectly space efficient with the notch/cutout area doesn't much matter imo. I'll take that trade-off any day in exchange for the active statuses and discrete notifications.
Prefer DI over notch and I like its animations, hate the name though, although for the life of me I cant think what you would call it, digital spot that sounds like some nasty illness from being online to much, Digital cutout sounds like something a TV has to turn it, Pixel Island sounds like a place for old Google phones go to die, so I really cant think what to call it and I bet Apple had a ton of names that sounded worse than mine. Oh hang on how about Dynamic suppository?