Transparent Ambition

I'll take the bubble tea interface over the extreme flatness of every widget that dominates the UI these days where no cues are given as to what is just text, what's a button, an editable text input etc.

While liquid glass is perhaps mediocre and distracting, the current "everything is just a text label or a stick figure icon" paradigm is pure hell. I dread learning any new UI because of how bad most are.

Not to mention the lack of discoverable shortcuts on desktop. On touchscreen devices you get random gestures that are hard to do half the time.

Off topic, but I wonder if the youth of today will have nostalgia for hideous flat corporate design the same way I have a certain fondness for all those high gloss buttons from 2007.

Every time I spend significant time on my Mac with the Tahoe beta and then go back to an Android phone (with near Pixel UI) I experience genuine relief. Everything is just a simple color and a label, and I love that because it's so easy to descern. Tahoe legitimately makes me tired to look at sometimes. I vastly prefer clarity and flatness over decorations.