Material Design
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No sir, I don't like it.
1. But Why?
This is pretty hard to pin down. I think it's a multi-faceted issue.
- It feels flat
- There isn't enough distinction between list items, tap-able things, labels.
- Poor use of space
There is a huge loss of usable space to "padding". A good example of this is the "Settings" app in android.
When you first open "Settings" the first 1/5th of the screen is completely empty. Then each "list" item has a huge amount of padding-top and padding-bottom (to borrow some terminology from CSS).
iOS has a similar "gap" at the top of the settings page, but it's smaller and feels less "wasteful". I think because the following list of settings is far more compact.