After a day of using it, I have to say I grew to dislike this UI even more. It's not a problem of adjusting to something new, it's a problem I noticed since around Android 13, things are getting dumbed down and users are treated like children. Empty spaces grow larger, information density is decreasing. Example: notification shade tiles are larger and larger, and to get them to a reasonable size I have to increase system-wide density to a point the phone thinks it's a tablet and fonts are unreadable. Battery percentage is barely legible because they put an icon behind it. It seems, at least to me, that every UI update makes things worse.
Also, my problem with unreliable alarm came back. Unreliable as in "alarm randomly not working at all" which I noticed by oversleeping by three hours today, but that's an issue for another thread perhaps.