Re: Notch...
> this messes up the video player scaling. So just as broken.
Scaling, cropping or black bars are inevitable on any screen, given common video content ranges from 4:3 through to wider than 16:9. A good video player will give you options*. That said, the most common TV format, 16:9, is less wide than the 2:1 phone screens notches are usually cut from, therefore the video at correct aspect ratio and and using the maximum vertical pixels won't encroach upon the notched area anyway.
It's actually good that phones are no longer a slave to the TV aspect ratio, since for many people video playback isn't the main thing they use their phone for.
* An irritating exception is BBC iPlayer - be it through desktop browser or Android app - because it assumes that you're using a 16:9 screen and one can end up with both horizontal *and* vertical black bars. That's just daft.
(My laptop is 16:10 and my phone is 2:1)