As a professional UX designer, the padding is the least of the issues.
I’m hoping I get used to it, but I miss more skeuomorphic design. It’s like a designer wanted to push it to be edgy and forgot about real people using it… which describes the bulk of Apple design, too, for that matter. I think we overshot the balance point.
Edit: forgot my real point halfway through commenting: I will say even that isn’t the worst of it, though. The dynamic theming is a bit of a branding nightmare.
Curse you! This is addictive. I stumped it three times:
Fin Raziel.
Paula Anton.
Alice Three Times.
I got it past 20 all but twice. It got Kathleen Kelly and D.C. at 20 and 19, respectively.