There is bikeshedding and there is developers with no concept of design redesigning UIs.

qBittorrent was already quite ugly, but this is just awful: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18078#issu... — why that bright blue on top of white? If you really want to make it blue, at least retain a decent contrast. And let's not even start with those icons... The shapes could work, albeit they are quite unrefined, but the garish colours do not convey any information nor show any artistic consistency.

(cue the "it's open-source, if you don't like it fork it, but dare not criticize us because it's rude" comment)

I am fine with people not being good at design, but the worst designers are convinced they are decent enough. It's like that law that eludes me right now, that people bad at something often overestimate their abilities and are blind to their shortcomings.

From my experience lurking in that repo, I found the development of Qbittorrent chaotic, and it has been like that for years.

They have no moderation in issues (hence 2.6k+ open issues);

Commiting frequency is (relatively) low for such a complex program;

And it also has lots of odd UX issues that has been solved on uTorrent at least 10 years ago. My pet peeve is that if you have "add .!qd to unfinished torrent files" option enabled, it somehow would prevent you to manually put completed files in and ask QB to re-check, a practice I often do to help seeding with files I already have (if you do so, it either totally ignore it when checking, or delete your completed file!)

I can't really tell why (lack of contributors, or just bad management), so I won't point fingers.

On the other hand, despite all the quirks and issues, the main functions work solid; and they seem to add/improve core features steadily. So I really have nothing to complain as a user. I just avoid updating to newest version in general.

The article doesn't mention how the new toolbar icons are also eyecancer, at least in dark mode. I had to switch to Text only buttons to avoid burning my eyes out from the bright red Remove icon on the dark gray background. So yeah, another reason for you to skip this version.