No, but it definitely means that it's not the big deal which overheated rhetoric in forums often implies. Experienced users are often extremely reactionary and wildly overstate the impact of highly visible changes but in most cases if you actually survey their usage later they've almost always gotten used to it.

In this case, the 16" screen gained ~0.2" diagonally and 314px extra resolution. Those extra pixels mean that even with the notch you're going to see more on the screen than you could before and in my experience that's far more likely to be the part which shapes people's impression of a new device.

> People buying a device doesn't mean they liked literally every aspect of the device and have no complaints about any aspect of it.

10 people complaining online doesn’t mean that all the millions of purchasers dislike it too.

I like the notch. It makes the phone look different to every other glass slab on the market.