Material You is just gorgeous. I love the pastel color schemes it makes, and the shapes are very refreshing compared to what has been "in" for the last few years IMO
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YMMV but my gmail and dialer just recently got much uglier with blueish tones. Feels like Material UI was great looking around android 5.0 and goes downhill ever since.
IMO Material only became good around Android 7. When Android 5 was still around, the boilerplate components were all way too big and the information density was incredibly low compared to Holo. Apps were tweaked and around Android 7 did I find them to be actually usable again.
Google Calendar had this issue the worst if I recall. There were these gaudy, colourful images everywhere with cards sliding around and big, friendly buttons all over the place. The design looked pretty great during a quick presentation, but in practice I found it very hard to use the "stream" view calendar properly when I could see two or three events at most without scrolling.
Sure, they did have a shortage of components, but the existing components were simple, clear, attractive. No ugly oval floating buttons or chiseled navbars hugging the FAB.
Currently, the notes app is a good example of such uglyfication: what was previously a simple attractive app now sports a horrendous navbar with ugly squarerounded plus button of unclear color. Phew.
I think android you looks liem fisher-price ui. Like the kind of OS UI you'd see for small children.