reading text isn’t the easiest with all the colors and blurs everywhere

Agreed - I like the look of these things in an abstract sense, but it makes the text really hard to read. I assume hope there's a way to disable it in accessibility settings.

Also not a fan of the critical UI elements being popped out into floating islands, very easy to accidentally hit underlying page content when there's effectively zero padding around controls (on touch devices, as the ad companies have discovered by making the × icons smaller and smaller).

Wow, that is bad. The music one is probably the worst of the examples. The artist name is barely readable most of that clip.

The notifications are rough too, a big wall of white text against a burry multicolor background is not fun to read.