There is. It's called macOs. The screen is 16:10 and then the menu bar, with the notch is extra space on top of that.
I can't even be frustrated with you. This is so humanity. "I hate what they did! If only they had done this instead!" They did do that. They talk about that a lot. The article talks about that. They solved the problem in a way so obvious that it's what random people on the internet come up with, but of course the same random people on the internet are so convinced of their own superiority and so sure of Apple's inferiority and also unable to read TFA.
I'm not saying apple is inferior and everyone else is wrong. I'm saying that for my own individual workflow, on my current macbook, this is a bad compromise.
I keep a large amount of tools/macros/shortcuts in my status bar, and this will cut through the middle of that.
I'd rather have thin black bars around my 16:10 video then lose that screen real estate for the status bar.
It is a bad compromise for how I use my current macbook.
I'm certainly in the minority, and that's fine, but I'm just trying to argue my side and understand other people's, not scream till I'm red in the face until I get my way.
Well, I couldn't find a setting to drop the menu into the 16:10 area, but the notch really doesn't take up much space, at least on the 16" screen. I haven't found an app that has enough menus to hit it yet. IntelliJ had the most. So if you are actually considering dropping $3k on a laptop soon, then I'd say go to an Apple store and check it out.
How many of the videos you watch are taller than 16:10? Are any of them even taller than 16:9?