So I switched to a pixel 7 from an iphone 10 xs a few months back, and I’ve absolutely loved it in comparison to the locked down nature of an iphone. So I think to look up material you on YouTube for fun, and decide to read the comments and found that people hated it. Quick googling led to me to find two reddit threads and an article talking about how much they hated it. Personally, I don’t understand the hate, as you can simply choose to have the color be a dullish blue manually.
Idk, it might just be that I haven’t been using android long to care about the fact that material you is being forced.
I’m looking around and I don’t see any difference in the colors. Perhaps you have some options enabled I didn’t try or didn’t like. From my perspective other than the swipe down menu with settings shortcuts, and the lock screen, all the android UI changes that have happened for many years have been minor. Interesting how your experience is so different. I do agree when they have changed things that weren’t minor it’s annoying. But on the other hand I’ve always adjusted fine in a couple of weeks.