It's not that I care about what other people think of it, it's what I personally think of it. I don't think I've ever had anyone mention it to me. It's more just that I've seen other screenshots and they just look clean whereas mine has this big ol' navbar that seemingly breaks up the screen content.

It was most apparent to me in Pokemon Go. While other games would hide the navbar, Pokemon Go never did or was glitchy about it. I'd share screenshots with friends and mine would have that damn grey navbar on the bottom and it was just annoying that everyone else would have a full screen to play their game with and I had to deal with losing some real estate.

I was definitely on the boat of always wanting it there for convenience, but once I got used to One Handed Operation+ for Galaxy phones and the OneUI gestures, I'll never go back to losing screen real estate.