The design really isn't fine. Look at some icons that are supposed to be black like Stocks and Wallet. Apple makes them slightly lighter than pure black because they are too stubborn to just put some common sense drop shadows even when it's no problem to practice common sense UI design with OS X. On top of this, third party developers can use a completely black icon background that would blend in with a wallpaper anyway, or a wallpaper can have the same sark gray that Apple puts on their black icons.
If they care for making a home screen design where icons don't blend in with wallpapers, it would help if they were open to actually make those improvements and get over their extreme minimalism.
That and I personally think that's the only part of iOS 6 that matters so much and makes it seem beautiful. I don't miss the old OS X design because they made it only slightly more unpleasant with Yosemite and were willing to add back many drop shadows to El Capitan, which has a great interface design.
And the fact that the app switcher in iOS 9 uses drop shadows as well. There's a funny reason for this as well, since without those drop shadows, all the apps that use white interfaces (most) would blend in to each other, so the designers probably only did it because it was as little as they had to do just to make it usable in that style.
The on/off switch in iOS also has shadows and has since iOS 7. Isn't it crazy that nobody throws up at the sight of that for not being minimal enough?
They also need to do it with text. Who else has noticed that on their marketing materials with iOS 9 devices, the clock on the lock screen is completely unreadable because of their genius choice for a default wallpaper?
If you think Scott Forstall took his design style overboard, look at the past three years of minimal iOS design. People who adhere to perfect grammar even when it isn't practical are called Grammar Nazis. The people who design iOS right now are Minimalism Nazis in that context.
If they care for making a home screen design where icons don't blend in with wallpapers, it would help if they were open to actually make those improvements and get over their extreme minimalism.
That and I personally think that's the only part of iOS 6 that matters so much and makes it seem beautiful. I don't miss the old OS X design because they made it only slightly more unpleasant with Yosemite and were willing to add back many drop shadows to El Capitan, which has a great interface design.
And the fact that the app switcher in iOS 9 uses drop shadows as well. There's a funny reason for this as well, since without those drop shadows, all the apps that use white interfaces (most) would blend in to each other, so the designers probably only did it because it was as little as they had to do just to make it usable in that style.
The on/off switch in iOS also has shadows and has since iOS 7. Isn't it crazy that nobody throws up at the sight of that for not being minimal enough?
They also need to do it with text. Who else has noticed that on their marketing materials with iOS 9 devices, the clock on the lock screen is completely unreadable because of their genius choice for a default wallpaper?
If you think Scott Forstall took his design style overboard, look at the past three years of minimal iOS design. People who adhere to perfect grammar even when it isn't practical are called Grammar Nazis. The people who design iOS right now are Minimalism Nazis in that context.