It's still an inelegant and goofy design — from a company that prides itself on caring about design and with a history of making fun of other companies' designs

It's still an inelegant and goofy design — from a company that prides itself on caring about design and with a history of making fun of other companies' designs. To me, it just reeks of laziness, just like the iPhone X "notch" and the Pencil gen 1 charging. In all these fairly recent examples, Apple basically gave up and didn't even bother trying.