To me Material looks like Google looked at iOS and compared it to their then rectangle-box based UI and said "Our UI is too bland compared to Apple. We must nee

To me Material looks like Google looked at iOS and compared it to their then rectangle-box based UI and said "Our UI is too bland compared to Apple. We must need tons of border radius and padding. And big splash animations when you touch a button!" Some people used to look down on Apple's UI as "fisher price" but Google has long taken that crown in my book. When I make flutter apps for side projects I just use the Apple based widgets (called Cupertino [0]). [0] https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/widgets/cupertino https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/widgets/cupertino