I tend to enjoy it, mostly because it's a good "baseline". The phrase "nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" comes to mind. It might not be the most beautifu

I tend to enjoy it, mostly because it's a good "baseline". The phrase "nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" comes to mind. It might not be the most beautiful, it might not be the most information-dense, it might not be something that an actual designer would want to implement everywhere, but it works consistently, and it works pretty well on all screen sizes and shapes and input types. It's a set of guidelines to hold your hand in making something that's not terrible even if you have literally no design experience, and I think it's doing a great job in that. But, I also really like the look of MD. The animations, the "inky" taps, the shadows, the movement. It looks nice to me, it helps give a sense of "where" parts of the app live, and it tends to be consistent enough that if I notice an app doing it, I can generally grasp the "where would I go for this" much faster than other designs.