[joeguilmette]

I’m old enough to remember iOS7. It was dog ugly and universally reviled.

This is new update is dog ugly and universally reviled. They’ll fix the most egregious stuff in beta, and then in a year or two dial it in.

This is a big, bold move. I’m happy to see them do something that takes some courage and also ship it.

Most of the really bad/unreadable screenshots I see are people customizing things so they look terrible. All the defaults look great.

I think it’s great we have deep customization options coming. That’s good. To people that say you shouldn’t be able to make it look bad… No. My desktop OS is infinitely configurable and I can absolutely break it. I’m happy to see at least the most surface level guard rails coming off of iOS.

This is good.

[jama211]

Very well said, people here are lacking _serious_ perspective. People don’t understand this, they protest every change. I remember someone saying in 2008 that YouTube’s old design was perfect and they shouldn’t have ever changed it and they were going to fail because of their stupid design change. They weren’t alone in this opinion. Imagine if youtube still looked like it did in 2007? Hahaha

Sheesh.