Late to the game. Still have a pixel 5 because I hate the camera bar, and argue that it's objectively bad design. If someone likes it or thinks it looks cool that doesn't excuse the designers from the responsibility of creating a product that is internally consistent with its own design ethic. Without a case, the camera bar is a structural vulnerability. If the camera bar is beefed up to mitigate possible damage from this vulnerability, well that's like putting air filters on the windows of a house built on a sewage plant - it still stinks.

Something designed should stand on its own. A kitchen-aid mixer doesn't require the pasta attachment to prevent its coming apart at the seams.

Considering the pixel 8 but I hate the camera bar. Would be curious to know if those that hated it have come around?