Symmetry and clean lines are nice but they aren't the only thing. It's never bad to let an object be what it is.<p>I don't mind that phone's notch because it just shows what it is. If the phone is a screen you just look at, then a clean, unbroken rectangle makes sense.<p>But the phone X is also an object that looks back at you. And listens to you and talks with you. The sensor array acknowledges that in a visceral, plain way.<p>In fact, hiding it would be a little weird... like the one-way mirror of an interrogation room. You know they're watching you but you don't know exactly who, how, and when. It a little off-putting to hide it and conversely, a little reassuring to make it obvious. And it's just nice and natural to have something to look at or talk to when you want the phone to see you or hear you.