[LeoPanthera]

The Reddit thread recommends "Ice" as an alternative: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

[luuurker]

All these open source alternatives lack something important for macs with notches: a way to see the expanded icons below the menu bar. Without this, icons are hidden by the notch.

You'd expect macOS to properly support the notch after 3 generations of laptops with them, but nope.

[FireBeyond]

I mean, promising, but a lot is still "in active development" and on the roadmap, including notch support, icon arranging...