But it's weird the faux grille doesn't extend to the end like every previous model.Only a small portion is actually the speaker. They're quarter-sized, by the bottoms of the grills.
Yep! Weird. Unboxing and hands-on videos online though, from as far afield as Japan, show the same grille as mine though, so it's not a one off.Every picture of the machine at apple.com shows the grills even with the top of the TouchBar.
Basically the speaker grilles are the same as the 2017 non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro. The function key row was shorter than the Touch Bar, and so the grille was shorter to align with it.
It seems bizarre that they haven't changed the grille, especially since most of the holes are fake and only penetrate very slightly into the chassis (so it's unlikely that there is something underneath on this design that would get in the way?).