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The style that was chosen, to me is deeply unsettling. These Well-lit, colourful, rounded, smooth 3D objects remind me of a chaotic, visually complex and triggering while trying-to-be-baby-safe environment, and indeed puts me into thinking the exact opposite of what I'd want to achieve with this product (which is eliminating chaos, and get my adult daily life sorted out).
Note that this is rather a weird angle and not a criticism of your product. I'm pretty sure it's only me, or at most a handful of people who are triggered into this state of mind. I found it interesting.
> visually complex and triggering while trying-to-be-baby-safe environment resonates perfectly, though.
On a side note: sorting adult daily lives out needs to embrace and make space for the inner child. I observe it everywhere at the moment: parents, old friends, even in my younger brother and myself. An unhealthy kind of stress, burnout and depression build up if you don't.
Isn't it munching on ice cream at 10pm, video games, and other indulges are for that? Also at work, I am (thankfully) able to tinker a lot while delivering value, and not under constant pressure to just grind, in a dry, too serious environment.
I think I do embrace (quite often) the inner child in me, but I definitely separate the "productivity" of my life from that: things that need the diligence, I do take seriously, and maybe this is what gives me this dissonant feeling when I look at this design language in the context of making me more productive.
I don't use Google Calendar often, so it took me a while to get the tracking part to work, but it worked flawlessly once I understood about the event naming