They basically have been slowly rolling it back with every update, probably because doing it all in one go would have been too much bad PR. iOS 26 right now looks very different from the one that was shown off on stage in June.

For the first time ever, since I got my first mac in 2009, I have not updated to the latest OS when I had the choice, because of this. I'm hoping the next major OS version rectifies the situation.

If the OS wasn't so damned buggy, the UI would be easier to put up with. But apps freezing, UI glitches, especially with the keyboard popping up or thinking it did, or not popping up. If the UI changed without it being so buggy there would be less to complain about, but while I'm complaining about the bugs, I'm simply going to be critical of the UI changes and not think ooh how pretty when I'm having to restart an app, once again.

I wish on the iPhone they would at least bring back the option to downgrade. But they took that away a week after liquid glass was released.

The transparency is cool, but everything got turned into bubbly corners, like someone wanted to live the Lost In Space timeline where everyone is computing with circular video monitors controlled by joysticks.