It is not perfect, but I find it much better than the previous design. The previous look was a mystery to me, because it looked so out of place, I tried to avoid it when developing apps for SailfishOS at all costs.
I even had a suspicion that they made it so ugly (more weird than ugly actually - one occurrence look kinda' nice, but the more buttons I saw, the more I was fed up) on purpose as an incentive for developers to do buton-less interfaces