Engadget’s Devindra Hardawar comes the closest in saying “Apple’s Liquid Glass is Windows Vista done well” but admits “I can’t really convince you otherwise if you think it looks ugly, as many of my Engadget colleagues do.”

Indeed, Liquid Glass does bring somewhat of a major change to iOS 26, or what we would have called iOS 18 (Apple is switching iOS numbers to years, and iOS 26 will release in the fall). I've been using the developer beta of iOS 26 for some weeks now,

With the fourth beta of iOS 26, Apple has again made changes to the Liquid Glass design that's available across the operating system,