Ah I'm not using Google anymore so I did not notice it, but the recent Slack update has the search box behaving kind of the same. So there's a trend (fad?) her

Ah I'm not using Google anymore so I did not notice it, but the recent Slack update has the search box behaving kind of the same. So there's a trend (fad?) here in design language, and I would be fine by it... if it wasn't clashing with every other part of the UI language, from Material cards to good old desktop windows. But this way, the extra Z value, size and color flash attention grab is just cognitively dissonant. I place the new pointer support on iPad OS on the same trend, as the pointer moves, the target has varying physical changes and hints the user with a little poppiness on the Z axis (parallax as the pointing device is operated, extra box around), but it's 1. a hint, not shovelled in your face and 2. consistent with the surrounding design language.