But I use linux and gnome now, but it's annyoing if an app is qt, not gtk, and the chaos comes back again.

You could take a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications#Qt_ports_of_GTK_themes

Why don't we have more stuff with character and personality?

It's extremely easy for 10 members of a design team to sprint together a minimalist design on Canva on their MacBooks whilst using the rest of the quarterly budget on a third monitor for each member than it is to create designs that have textures, realistic materials, etc, and scale well on all screens and so on.

Windows 7’s Aero was amazing. Liquid Glass is terrible.

I don’t dislike aero or glass, I just dislike iOS implementation of it. With the wrong background sometimes you can’t read buttons for example, and a myriad of little things that are insignificant on their own but a pain in numbers.

I was never a fan of aero, but I don't care a lot about UIs in general. It's just that Liquid Glass as implemented by Apple specifically is terrible. When I first updated to it I was looking for how to tune it down and found this article that covers what I think is the biggest issue with their implementation: https://www.macworld.com/article/2891233/this-liquid-glass-toggle-is-a-window-into-apples-broken-design-process.html

They focused so much on making it pretty that it ceased to be functional. There should not be animation lag on basic UI elements. My phone is not that old and my screen will freeze up with a big Liquid Glass bubble obscuring the display for at least a full 2 seconds depending on the button I press. They allow per app Liquid Glass settings, which is great considering how terribly it's been implemented on certain apps, but the fact it's deemed necessary should be a huge indicator of the overall quality. A nonzero amount of dev time was put into making sure we can reject their design direction and still that doesn't work. The safari browser implementation of turning off LG leaves empty blocks on the top and bottom of the screen instead of the normal fade away of those elements, and that is their own browser. I imagine a lot will be patched out soon, but the roll out has been a buggy disaster in my opinion. I think it's really colored people's opinion on LG in general now.

I’ll join in and say that I also don’t understand the hate. I get the readability and accessibility stuff, but as far as pure aesthetic, I personally really enjoy it. I haven’t run into the supposed complete workflow hitches that others seem to have with it.

Yeah. I've been using Macs since System 6 and while I've often disagreed with Apple's direction, this is the first one that feels downright incompetent, in much the same way as Microsoft's Vista and Windows 8 designs were.

There's no consistency between how things look and how they behave. There is useless clutter everywhere. Legibility of text is an afterthought. It's like they forgot the distinction between graphic design and UI design.

But it looks pretty at a glance, so.......great......

Oh, my bad. Something about the icons made me think "Apple," but now I see the search bar.

Yeah.

I got an iPhone at a mega discount, and coming from Android (and jailbroken iOS long before that), I feeling some… annoyance. And pull to jailbreak it. But it’s a very different endeavor these days.