It looks ugly, unless you reserve the area on each side of the notch to notifications so that the apps and pictures do not have access to it. That is the only condition that would make it acceptable to me.
Even though, having a full screen display impose other issues:
My Moto-X(2nd gen) has a 73% screen to body ratio, better than most current flagships (yes, I mean you Google Pixel2 and iPhone 8) and to me that leaves just enough room to hold the phone and have decent front facing speakers. Why is it so hard to do better than a 4 year old phone?
2) Room for a jack: one guy actually installed a headphone jack inside an iPhone 7 without sacrificing anything. He found the room for it inside an existing phone. It even looks good. I know, it sounds unbelievable and it is. Google it for his story. If a guy in his apartment can do it, I am sure that Apple with a few spare million dollars could do it if they wanted.
My guess is that it is the same thing with Google. They are running out of ideas about what to do with a phone to make it sound new, so they come up with that stuff.
My personal experience, borne of having an iPhone and an Android phone in the car on a regular basis is that the turn by turn directions are consistently better on Android.
If there are areas where Apple maps are superior, I have not found them.
I certainly did not see it coming!
When I had the commercial grade service, one Sunday morning Internet did not work. I thought it was a network problem. A couple of hours later, I get a web page that tells me to call their customer support. It turns out I had been exceeding my monthly bandwidth by a bunch (50% over) for over 6 months (other people in my household watching movies and videos a lot). The guy told me he was going to turn me back on but wanted me to try not to go over the limit so brazenly. A few minutes later, I was up and running. They never asked any money. I appreciated that I did not get a nastygram or other threat. I told the guy I would have appreciated an email to notify me that I was over the limit before turning me off, but honestly considering how the whole thing unfurled, they were nice and did not try to cause me problems.
A couple of years later, I upgraded to the business class service to get rid of the monthly bandwidth and all has been good since.
I can feel America returning to greatness at breakneck pace...
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.