Copying my tweet from 3 days ago:
Can Google please lay off their entire design department already? I'm tired of redoing things in apps for the sake of them working the same but looking different. Android is a done product. It needs no further major updates.
I feel like they did already lay them off, which is how we end up with this...
Redesigning corporate branding is the revolving door of getting a promotion package, won't someone please think of the middle managers!
We know what happens to "done" Google products though... they're going to keep making changes until Android goes away.
Android doesn't have to remain a Google product though. Google is mostly a terrible maintainer of AOSP.