Err, as an Atari 400/800 owner, I can assure you that they did in fact have an overscan problem. Atari BASIC even defaulted to not printing to the first 2 characters and last 2 characters of each line.
Here's an example Atari BASIC program that uses POKE statements to change and then restore the default margins.
Here's an example Atari BASIC program that uses POKE statements to change and then restore the default margins.
https://www.atariarchives.org/c2bag/page003.php