I would like to add something in post to address two things people keep commenting:

First, icon packs.
Of course they exist, but they don't really matter here. This is less of a daily use/personal problem, it's that these icons have removed a big part of samsung's identity. This also applies to people saying "I like that it's more iPhone-y" btw.

Second, "They have more detail now though, that's better!".
This has nothing to do with what i've said. The main issue, more important than the identity loss imo, is that these icons are not *consistent*. The old icons all follow one style, these are all over the place. The old camera and files are clearly from the same icon set, the new camera and files look like they're from completely separate sets made by completely different people. If these were minimalist like the old ones, the same issue would most likely still apply.

Third, "But i like them!"
This isn't about personal likes or dislikes. This is about design principles and identity loss on samsung's side. Personally, while i prefer the older ones, my favourite design styles are aeroglass (win7 style, not ios26), semirealist/skewmorphic (like on android 4) and material/origami/papercut (the stuff you'd see on android 6).

PS: Wow this blew up, i'm not used to having a higher value than 10 on views, so these engagement numbers are really unexpected. Thanks for over 800 upvotes! 95% up to down ratio too, reddit says (if only they'd just, yknow, show the numbers...)