Oh yeah, let's drop Google's design language that they enforce in every app, and instead use a bespoke system. That would be suboptimal in terms of ensuring us

Oh yeah, let's drop Google's design language that they enforce in every app, and instead use a bespoke system. That would be suboptimal in terms of ensuring users feel familiarity, even if this was a good design. The suggested alternative is one that requires scrolling down to the bottom of the page. Good luck scaling this. UX isn't just prettier solutions, sure. It's also not just finding solutions that are more elegant in a vacuum. People have an embedded expectation of the design language of things. You know what a glass of wine looks like, and what a glass of water looks like. If you start making up your own solutions, it needs to acknowledge those expectations. Otherwise it's not UX, but performance art.