> more distracting and gimmicky

This. The animations on iOS are already a bit too much—now they've taken it to the next level.

I wonder if there will be a big difference between a 60Hz and 120Hz Display. Blur is distracting if the content is dynamic.

Like the flashlight. There’s no reason to have that much pageantry behind turning on a flashlight.

I’m not sure what you mean. I turn on the flashlight with two touches: drag from the top right corner to bring up the control center, then click on the flashlight icon.

OP is talking about the UI that let's you change the beam strength and focus

That UI is awesome.

It's not like it's even that useful, I never heard of any phones letting you adjust the beam width/strength like that before but it was quite fun to play with that the first time I discovered it.

God forbid software be a little bit fun.

Turn them off in accessibility

Also it looks bad.