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How is unobstructed area, a term you just made up, better than safe area, a term that has been standard for decades?


That's obvious: the descriptive term is obvious in what it represents on your screen, so has a low cognitive overload for all the new generations of people learning these APIs. Encoding bad practices for decades, on the other hand, just reflects the pains of the old generations.




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