It is indeed intrusive and taking up screen estate. Even more so I would say, from 13PM. Those using ZF4 and has gotten used to the full screen estate most likely may not like iPhone’s DI.
But that’s what Apple is slowly trying to do. Taking away the notch and giving us DI that is interactive this yr so as to have something frontal that could differentiate between past iPhone pro models and this year’s.
So, next year they could slowly shrink the size of that Island, and the Grand Finale in the years ahead to come would be evthg under the pixels of the screen. That is their aim right from the start of building iPhone.