Majority of the users here haven’t even implemented a single material design.

Our app has been 100% Jetpack Compose Material 3 for over a year and user growth has been phenomenal.

We’re not US based though.

I've noticed that lately too.

And any thread with a political tinge has a comment section indistinguishable from Reddit, complete with the doomerism.

Change for change sake is bad, yes. And the problem is, that these last changes have been half-baked, most things WITHIN GOOGLE still haven't fully done the switch to Material You / Material 3 Base, and now they decide to throw stuff around yet again.

It's hardly a design system if a random lead UI/UX designer redesigns core elements every 3 years