Something about the spacing and colours kind of reminds me of KDE Plasma. For example the first comparison of the about box [1]. The use of white for the titlebar looks jarring against a grey window background, almost like it's a mistake. The different shades make it still look layered in the Z direction but I can't decide whether the titlebar is in front or behind the window contents and it's kind of uncomfortable? And the text in the buttons isn't centered correctly.
This one is even worse [2], the padding towards the left of the window is generally twice that of elements towards the right of the window, and what is up with that 'save' button..
Overall it looks like they stole the excessive titlebar size of GNOME 3 and the bad spacing/padding/alignments of plasma.
It looks extremely linux-y to me, and not in a good way.
The system preferences menu is a good example...the icons are each doing its own thing, and they even seem to be from different eras. Some of them are the usual apple style, some others look like they're from windows vista or just have an unidentifiable style.
I feel like I'm using linux with one of those wannabe OSX themes, rather than the original macos.
I think there actually is a logic to the padding: on the left side, the left padding equals the top padding. On the right side, the right padding equals the top padding. The top padding differs between the two sides, hence the difference.
I guess there is a certain logic, but I still think it looks unbalanced. And look at the spacing/padding of each button in the white header. Two buttons with lots of padding, an ugly truncated title (despite removing the separate titlebar, the header is overall taller than the previous one and there is now no room for the title because the space it used has been traded for whitespace), the four evenly spaced buttons, then one button with irregular spacing that doesn't match any of the others, and then another button that is too close to the search box and looks like it's vertically aligned slighly lower compared to the others. Just looks like a mess to me.
This one is even worse [2], the padding towards the left of the window is generally twice that of elements towards the right of the window, and what is up with that 'save' button..
Overall it looks like they stole the excessive titlebar size of GNOME 3 and the bad spacing/padding/alignments of plasma.
[1] https://www.andrewdenty.com/blog/assets/img/macos-new-ui/gen...
[2] https://www.andrewdenty.com/blog/assets/img/macos-new-ui/fin...