Android 12 had the most bizarre UI changes. They made everything so big and spaced-out, it induced scrolling everywhere. Most infuriatingly, the default pull-down menu (with wifi, flashlight, airplane mode, etc.) became tall enough to crowd out the music player controls and induce scrolling. Who wants to scroll on such a constantly accessed part of the UI? And all in service of spacing out the button text by an absurd 10mm.
I can't imagine any justification for this other than some blind adherence to a design ideology over user testing.
> Most infuriatingly, the default pull-down menu (with wifi, flashlight, airplane mode, etc.) became tall enough to crowd out the music player controls and induce scrolling.
On many (most? all?) Android phones, you can move the icons in that menu around. (Press-and-hold, then drag, IIRC.) Takes a while to find out which ones you use and which you don't, but once you do you can then move the former before the latter.
I can't imagine any justification for this other than some blind adherence to a design ideology over user testing.