I have yet to see an app get better with Liquid Glass. I’ve seen plenty get worse, like the Kroger app which is now even worse of an app than when I reviewed it a couple years ago. I’m considering doing another review (that no one asked for) just to call out how stupid their Liquid Glass implementation is. In that case, it’s not just Kroger’s incompetence, the design language that Apple has forced on people just sucks.

When I first started writing cross-platform apps I was concerned about not matching the OS and having a design that didn’t “jive” with other apps. I have long since realized this was the best decision I could have made. I’m not beholden to either OS’s whims and my apps can look good no matter how much Apple screws up their UI/UX.

At a time when Apple really needs to improve developer relations they threw a massive project at their most die-hard (developer) fans (mostly as a distraction from the failed Apple “intelligence”) which resulted in the people who want to be good OS citizens to have objectively worse apps than those who said “screw it, we will do our own design”.

I’m thankful every day that Alan Dye is gone and will rejoice when Tim Cook also leaves Apple.