This doesn’t justify applying a less than suboptimal design for everything else.

UI on content is a special case just like AR and here it might be ok, but why add “glass” as a background on icons or panels for text that are served much better by using a single colored transparent background without the noise that glass is bringing to the table - if there’s a background needed at all.

The visual signal to noise ratio is being cranked up to 11 for novelty’s sake.