Confirming need to manually set up top-of-display "space buffer" to account for sketchybar

[jasoncorso]

Hi, recent adoptee and longtime debian/i3 user here with a quick confirmation question.

It seems necessary to manually configure the space for a menubar, say sketchybar, at the top of the screen through the outer.top configuration entry (and to differ these for notched v not-notched displays, which seems like it'd get annoying if only using one display but switching that one display between notched laptop and pluggable).

Is this correct or am I missing something? (In my experience with i3, the existence of a menubar, such as bumblebee, is automatically handled by i3.). Thanks.