When you spend $1000+ on a phone, you'll find any reason to justify its faults. If a person had a choice between the notch, and no notch, with the same functionality. I'm doubtful anyone would choose the notch for aesthetic reasons.
I disagree. Think about it less as a notch in the screen, but as an extra screen around the notch. I'm looking at my phone and it has the camera and speaker above the screen, but the sides are just empty black space. If I could, I would absolutely want to have extra screen there, to display the time or notifications. So yes, I would absolutely pick a phone with a notch over a phone without it.
