Worth noting that, from what I gathered, a lot of dislike towards Ventura's new UI is often less the style and more just various inconsistencies / strange behavior in their execution of it.
The new criticisms directed at Ventura are less about the style because the style criticisms date back to Big Sur and have been talked to death. The lack of contrast and the over-generous menu spacing isn’t any better today than it was in November 2020.