Making everything illegible is necessary, so they can sell you a legible design as the next big revolution. Just not in one step. The return to legibility will be a multi part story with cliffhangers, betrayals and everything else it takes to keep you hooked and Apple in the news.
The designers on Liquid Glass are proud of it, and also disappointed that some of the design system did not make it into v1.0 code, so the reality is less legible than the designs indicated.
There is no designer in the world making bad designs as part of some conspiracy to enable their employer to launch improved designs several years later. There’s no company that operates that way.
Maybe legibility should be a ship condition on the first version of the code, not some final destination to eventually achieve. Or like, maybe they need to actually say that, when they claim this is the culmination of years of thought and effort, and that this is clearly the most amazing design ever, that they don't mean the thing they are actually pointing at.
> There is no designer in the world making bad designs as part of some conspiracy to enable their employer to launch improved designs several years later. There’s no company that operates that way.
You honestly think the people working on those did a bad job intentionally, and the companies took big PR and revenue hits intentionally, just so they could save the day years later?
