> What do a bunch of geometric, flat-looking, solid colors have anything to do with "materials." The idea of material design is not to by flat at all, but to u

> What do a bunch of geometric, flat-looking, solid colors have anything to do with "materials." The idea of material design is not to by flat at all, but to use depth as a cue of information hierarchy. The material design spec has some more information on this: https://material.google.com/material-design/environment.html#environment-3d-world https://material.google.com/material-design/environment.html... But I think some of your points are valid - in that a lazy implementation of material design is essentially making things look Googley and calling it a day - sometimes resulting in flat design.