So it seems Apple's latest attempt (as of macOS Tahoe 26.2 RC) at compensating for how unreadable Liquid Glass gets in most situations is just to add some comically massive drop shadows around system elements?
@nileane They really do need to rethink a lot of these choices. A menu with buttons and no other information should only need the space the buttons occupy. But because of readability issues and to make the current choices look better you dim the entire screen, half is blurred and the background behind the buttons gets a bigger smudgy shadow 👌