It means that it is considered a sign of shoddy design. Granted it is technically a matter of opinion of if having a screen flanking the camera or giving its own space above or below is better but there have been complaints about comparability being broken.
Like complaining about a release crashing as breaking the build being unprofessional - while testing is a role internally it should compile and run at least beforehand.
Meanwhile 'Samsung Galaxy Note 7 catches fire' is objectively bad since a phone should never catch fire on its own unless perhaps it includes a self destruct feature (which needless to say would be very niche to be approved for sale).
There are still some pretty good tech news sites out there. The Next Platform and The New Stack are examples of sites that are pretty much just focused on tech news.
But most of the organizations that can afford to cover tech news in-depth that may not be of that much interest to the general reader are behind (expensive) paywalls. They're analysts/consultants/etc. (As the Linley Group is with Microprocessor Report.)
Tech news today is more like TMZ for the tech industry and all about either “coolness” or about “causes”.