The bezels of the Kobo are the reason I opted to jailbreak a Kindle instead of buying a Kobo. For me, they're far too distracting to see and feel

I appreciate the aesthetic of flat bezels, but I find cases more annoying than bezels so I go for bezels to avoid needing to buy a new reader every 6 months to a year. My flat-bezeled Onyx Boox and Pocketbook readers have proven much more fragile than my fully-bezeled Kobos and old Kindle.