still thinking about Material You, I hope it's as good as they say it's gonna be

Android going from programmer art to "here's a bunch of settings and sliders, every combination of settings is gonna be a viable UI that complies with our human interface guidelines is wild

like, iOS started at skeuomorphism (which I'm still nostalgic for) and stopped at shapes and gradients

and like, I like the aesthetics of iOS, but the OS really has accumulated idiosyncracies over the years, like swiping down from different top corners doing different things, or whatever the hell multitasking on iPad OS is supposed to be

tbh iOS peaked at version 6, if you ignore Game Center and Podcasts

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while we're at it, OSX peaked at Snow Leopard, obviously

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