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I don't like it. Blur makes most of the UI less readable.
I just don't think it looks very good. I know that everyone has different tastes of what looks good but I personally love modern design when it comes to UI and IMO Android was the best looking OS UI and right after that GNOME. But part of why I think both of them look so good and why I think they even look better than Apples design, is that they don't use blur. I don't think it really fits into the Material 3 design language.
Really wish these companies would stop with the pointless UI "reimaginings" - the point of a user interface is to interface with the user - yet they think stupid new shapes will give people boners.
These terrible colorless undefined icons are so annoying as well. I like icons having shape and color, so I can go, "I want to go on the web, where's orange fox circle shape?" "I want to send an email, where's blue envelope rectangle?" Not neon screaming colors, but some subtle difference beyond "gray starburst with straight line versus gray starburst with weird symbol." Might as well just do away with icons entirely and just use hieroglyphics.
I'm not against experimentation and changing things. I liked Material 2 but Material 3 is an improvement in every way. Even some of the changes in this redesign are pretty good. My main issue is with the blur. I don't think it works well with bold contrasting colors that Material aims to use.
And regarding your point on icon shapes, I kind of get it but also I get the reasoning of having uniform sizes — it does look better. I wish there was a way to have different shapes that are uniform in size. They've made these new various shapes and they look nice but it would be even nicer if we could apply different shapes to different icons, and not use one shape exclusively for everything.