Potentially controversial opinion: I think Google's Material Design is a bit crap.

Like, the thought underpinning it is (mostly) sound, but I find the most recent version of it just kinda aesthetically bleh and surprisingly hard to parse in my limited experience as a user.

Some bits have gotten better (the new input style = good improvement), some bits remain pretty bad (FABs = terrible UX), and I know the system is intended as a themeable baseline—my complaint is mainly with how Google themselves have implemented it.

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