This comment section is predictably boring and shows that HN isn’t always a great place for discourse. Change is hard, I guess.
Change for change sake is bad, yes. And the problem is, that these last changes have been half-baked, most things WITHIN GOOGLE still haven't fully done the switch to Material You / Material 3 Base, and now they decide to throw stuff around yet again.
It's hardly a design system if a random lead UI/UX designer redesigns core elements every 3 years
Majority of the users here haven’t even implemented a single material design.
Our app has been 100% Jetpack Compose Material 3 for over a year and user growth has been phenomenal.
We’re not US based though.
I've noticed that lately too.
And any thread with a political tinge has a comment section indistinguishable from Reddit, complete with the doomerism.