I thought the same thing but updated couple weeks back and actually really really enjoy the liquid glass. I don't recall what it was about the release that made me think I'd hate it, but I've half fallen in love with it, I was just thinking yesterday I wonder what all the fuss was about.

I believe it's changed a lot since it was initially debut'd via the betas. And there was that Supabase post mocking it, where they made the whole UI glass, and that biased me a bit ha

I don’t like it on the iPhone, but it’s more a “sigh, I’ll live with it” downgrade than a catastrophic one (at least once you go into the Safari settings and turn off the huge useless address bar by putting it in compact mode). It’s on the Mac where it’s truly a shitshow.