In fact, I get the "faded out" cover whenever the process receives any signal at all. Even if it crashes, or I kill it from a shell, or the "non responding" prompt kills it, or ....

To me it seems a bit nonsensical. But it doesn't happen often enough to even complain about it.

I like the new details and "flatness". Never been a fan of shiny, and now the buttons look much more clickable. Pulley menus are more noticeable too. Also, I like the animation there.

However, the blink animation after selecting an option is at least twice as long as it should be. Same for the power on fade in and unlock.

The ambience system continues to seem unintuitively designed. The idea is nice. But why does it assume I want to change the background image? In my planet, people don't change the background as often as they change between silent and normal mode. The UI is newbie-unfriendly enough to allow individually setting whether an ambience actually changes the ringer volume or not.... and yet I can't make an ambience NOT change my background!

Also, I guess like everyone else I miss the swipe to lock gesture; because of the above issue, my ambience menu is empty either way.

But generally, I like it. I find no significant performance difference, and it seems more finished. Now waiting for redesigns of some of the main programs and after that for general bugfixing to resume