I've never been a fan of material design and surely hope it doesn't become a standard. Design guidelines from a company that is widely known not to care about

I've never been a fan of material design and surely hope it doesn't become a standard. Design guidelines from a company that is widely known not to care about design? No thanks. Even Google Inbox shows how engineering-driven everything is at Google - the navigation is completely unorthodox (going back = drag down), like someone above decided "this is the way we do everything from now on" and nobody had the balls to question 'em. I'd never accept Microsoft's design guidelines or Google's. If you truly care about design, you'd stick to Apple's or develop your own, which frankly isn't too hard in CSS anyway, and it means you aren't tied to a particular OS feel or a big-corp policy.