Don't you think Material 3 Expressive looks dated?

The era of FLAT began over 10 years ago and it's dead now. We're in the era of gradients and blur.

I really don't like these pastel colors at all, I also despise the lack of true dark mode and the decision to discard black backgrounds when all high end phones and even midrange phones have AMOLED displays.

I really like ONE UI by Samsung, it is beautiful in my opinion but then I have to open Google apps and they feel completely OLD. The only exceptions are Gemini which looks great and also YouTube music, which btw they both have black backgrounds, gradients, blurs.

So, Google. WHY?

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