Eric Still can't bring myself to like Material Design.

Adam Douglas Yeah, me neither. A design language is good and I think Google is doing the right thing by having such a comprehensive (if try-hard) style guide, but the problem is that it's not just Google's style, it's being adopted and even advocated for general use all over the place. I would hate to live in a world where everything was material design, just as I'd hate a world where everything looked like OS X Yosemite/iOS8. I do prefer the latter Apple styles to Google's material design, but variety is the key.