I just tried it by commenting that line out in the config and running in a terminal the following:
bspc config -m HDMI-A-1 bottom_padding XX
where XX are different values I played around with. I tried 20, 1 and 3. They seem to get set correctly. 3 is the value I had in my config. I’m thinking it might be something like a race between bspwm restarting itself and running the command in the config file (config files are basically just commands to the WM). I’ll try moving that part of the config further down in the config so hopefully it has a chance to set its default values on restart and after that set my values.
So far this week im playing Wifi troubleshooting on my Arch ;)
But seriously, ive been giving Hogwarts Legacy a tr and I enjoy it