I understand this sentiment, too. But after working without the status bar in Chrome (autohide, I guess) for a while, I got used to it and now actually quite like it. And I think hiding it by default, especially for app tabs, is actually quite nice and I like the idea of having more space for the actual content.
As long as there's an easy way to invoke the url bar, I'll be happy.
Never cared for autohide on taskbars etc, I find it distracting to have things moving in and out. However, I do have two high resolution monitors and therefore like having a real menu bar, and real statusbar. Please, browser makers, quit trying to make that difficult.
Although one thing I'd like, which I've seen no one implement yet is to have links urls as tooltips on mouseover. Perhaps below another tooltip if it existed. Shorter distance to move my eyes.
As long as there's an easy way to invoke the url bar, I'll be happy.