I came to peace with it in very short time after some stages:

1. saw a seahorse kind of thing and thought wtf...
2. realized it is a sailfish on closer inspection and started to like the vividness. Only it swimming away is still not 100% clinging.
3. the s and f are really nicely hidden in the shape and i am finally sold on the design after discovering them.
4. I still do not like the arial style font on Sailfish OS so i prefer the textless version.