"What I lack for design skills, I make up for in being good at organizing information" - You
You just described the purpose of flat design. The point is for the information to stand out more than the style of the elements. It's substance over style.
Some people (bad designers) take it to an extreme and make everything square and you can't distinguish what's clickable. Some people (bad designers) took skeumorphism to an extreme and arranged information incorrectly, gave everything a leather texture. Some people (bad designers) took web 2.0 / Social to an extreme and put 20 freaken social widgets on every page, neon backgrounds, and glass like shiney buttons on everything.
A design style should not be defined by the worse executors of that style. (same goes for plastic surgery)
You just described the purpose of flat design. The point is for the information to stand out more than the style of the elements. It's substance over style.
Some people (bad designers) take it to an extreme and make everything square and you can't distinguish what's clickable. Some people (bad designers) took skeumorphism to an extreme and arranged information incorrectly, gave everything a leather texture. Some people (bad designers) took web 2.0 / Social to an extreme and put 20 freaken social widgets on every page, neon backgrounds, and glass like shiney buttons on everything.
A design style should not be defined by the worse executors of that style. (same goes for plastic surgery)