Not a fan of transparent backgrounds to UI elements since they are simply distracting. I turned all that glassy stuff off back in the Windows Vista days, and all these recent efforts just feel antiquated to me (funny that some people feel nostalgic about that era though!).

"Now it’s 2025, and I’m impatient with traditional interfaces. Keyboards and mice feel slow."

Maybe I'm just old, but more and more I feel the opposite. I like using a keyboard more than I used to because it's way faster. I can't count the number of times I started doing something on my phone or some touch-screen device and I just gave up and went to a computer with a real keyboard. The OP is talking more about voice control, I think, but that to me is even slower. I can see how good transcription can work for slower typists for long amounts of text, but editing that text is way slower. And basic UI elements and tasks? Doesn't Ctrl-C beat out whatever voice thing you'd say to copy text ("COPY THE WORDS from BLAH to BLUH"?). To say nothing about discoverability of what you can or cannot do.

It's wild seeing some Apple enthusiasts trying really hard to justify. They really want to like this , so while they offer criticism they are quick to also say "but I also like this other thing".

The backlash is because it feels like a cheap rehash of a decade prior instead of something truly novel. If this were a real innovation you'd see animation in the liquid glass style that reflects the apps container, environment and camera input. Instead it's just the same css treatment any web dev could slap on a button. Do better apple. Impress us like you used to.