They’re not sacred but changing them gives a much lower payoff than the pain of changing. None of your suggestions actually improve the situation. They’d just

They’re not sacred but changing them gives a much lower payoff than the pain of changing. None of your suggestions actually improve the situation. They’d just not scale the way you think they would to other display types when you query the safe area. For example, Apple specifically calls out why they use the safe area term to correspond to different display types > In tvOS, the safe area also includes the screen’s overscan insets, which represent the area covered by the screen’s bezel. Unobstructed is longer, and provides no extra information of value. Go work in a visual industry and see how long before you get tired of saying title unobstructed and action unobstructed. Again, you’re coming at this form the perspective of a lay person in the realm of displays and getting angered that the term isn’t immediately intuitive to you personally, rather than the entire industry that has a standard term that they use and have for many decades.