The main issue imo is it used to be "fuck you, our way is better" and that would usually end up being true or they could at least explain, but liquid glass seems only superficial at best and actively detrimental at worst with the added taps for actions that were previously 1 button. The worst offender I've seen so far is in the Phone app: go to the new Calls tab, tap on a recent caller, and tapping the Edit button in the corner expands into a single Edit Contact Info button. It's not even consistent within the same application because the Edit button on the Contacts tab goes straight into the edit contact mode.

Hopefully all of us complainers are wrong and this ends up being a smart strategic move by Apple but so far nothing is easier and many things are worse.