Agreed, most of these only work due to the contrived examples. The first one only looks good because of the background, uniform nature of the icons and omissio

Agreed, most of these only work due to the contrived examples. The first one only looks good because of the background, uniform nature of the icons and omission of app titles. Think it's going to be a stretch to have all apps adapt the same icon style and users restricted from changing the background. Nothing wrong with looking to apply a few fresh coats of paint,but unfortunately Apple actually have to think about how it works in the real world, not just how it looks. People just randomly pointing to things that look half good and saying iOS should be like that is not being helpful.