I find it very interesting the praise Material Design Expressive gets. Perhaps it's just because I've always been on iOS, but every iteration of Material Design seems so much more foreign to me. I'm not really criticizing it, but personally I find it to be extremely confusing to visually process.

It feels a lot like language divergence. iOS and Android started at the same place (same language), then became different accents, different dialects, and (soon/now) different languages.

These modern designs feel so antiquated. Like being stuck to musty magazine pages.

Bring me back to the era just after Geocities 1999. That pre-web 2.0 world saw some real futurism, before all the flatness took over.

Even Frutiger Aero was more forward thinking than Material.

The overall feeling I get from this is "form over function" and specifically "look! look! we can do fancy typography!".