> I don't know if Lemay merely agreed to keep his job

Again: why do you keep assigning Dye God-like powers? There wasn't just Lemay. There's no end of senior designers and senior product people, Federighi and his minions etc. at Apple.

In the end we still got Liquid Glass.

> On your second, Liquid Glass is merely the culmination of years of bad direction.

Indeed. Easily hundreds of people across several platforms saw this direction. Somehow we are led to believe that all of them were against this direction, and Dye single-handedly forced all the changes through.