Same with macOS. I'm sticking with Sequoia, but don't know what to do if macOS 27 turns out to be just as ugly as Tahoe.

I'd even settle for it being on a switch, call it "minimal UI" or something, but I have a feeling that Apple doesn't work like that. It's burn-the-boats, we're going all in on Glass and there's no going back.

I would like them to also fix all the weird rendering bugs they introduced in Safari.

Though maybe those are also liquid glass’ fault.

this would make me so happy!

There's no need to lose face to the vast majority of their customers, who don't read tech blogs or know who Siracusa is.

They can just boldy advance forwarded in a rearward direction and claim whatever they want about it. They've done it multiple times - every new iPhone and iOS has looked "the best and newest" and made the last one that looked the best and newest look old-hat.

They owned their mistake of removing all ports and function keys from MacBook Pros, so there is a chance. That being said, the UI degradation of macOS has been a slow but persistent march for about a decade now, and I don't imagine it will change now.

I thought the person responsible was already gone...

They might manage to pin it all on Alan Dye, who recently jumped ship to Meta.

I actually liked how Vista looked, but it had a lot of artificial sheen that Liquid Glass doesn’t have.

Looks were never Vista’s problem.

Windows 98 Phone when?

I don't remember my Vista installation being this illegible.

I don't care when somebody doesn't like aesthetics or look and feel of a new theme. It is subjective. Giving people an option to turn it off is kind. But Liquid Glass is usability terror. Just bring up the onscreen controls when you are playing video and compare that with what it was before. What is incredibly disappointing is people like you who defends new things just because they are new without paying any attention to usability, ergonomics or -sadly- performance. There is nothing good about Liquid Glass. Half of this site could just be a bot complaining.

Personally, the icon and widget edges constantly moving around when moving the phone even slightly in any direction got on my nerves so bad that I had to disable Motion completely (the only fix for it). This unfortunately also downgraded a lot of other UI components/interactions as well.

It did give me a battery boost though, so at least there's that.

UX regressions are bad, and liquid glass is worse than Microsoft’s Metro nonsense for usability.

Transparency is not a good user experience when you’re trying to read detailed text.