The "Automatically hide and show the menubar" setting should really default to "Never" for notched displays, since it doesn't actually gain you any extra real-e

The "Automatically hide and show the menubar" setting should really default to "Never" for notched displays, since it doesn't actually gain you any extra real-estate and just slows you down with a pointless animation. I finally turned it off because on my (non-notched) external display it was too easy to accidentally activate, which would disable the thing in the toolbar that I actually intended to click on (and then I'd have to sit there and wait a second for it to re-hide before very carefully mousing to almost-but-not-quite the top of the screen to click my intended target). It's in the Desktop & Dock section.