@halva i've definitely read a thread or 2 of people wanting it back but it's mostly people just being nostalgic rather than being serious i think, it's cool that you can see which notif you have based on the colour of the light but an Icon does the same thing and is a lot less distracting too lol
you know with screens taking up the entire front portion of the phone, there's definitely a way someone could implement the notification light on the software level, on the AOD maybe or smth. that would be kinda cool. it would probably work like shit on stuff that isnt OLED tho
i think its dumb to have -rs in the name of your thing but at the same time like, i think i see it a lot because people rewrite a lot of stuff in rust and its not uncommon to do that (e.g llamacpp), and it sort of tells you what you need to know too... i just think its not creative.