Some nice ideas about trying to expose the swathes of content but execution is off and it’s buggy

For sure. So far, what I dislike the most though is that the search icon is tiny and hovers in the top right corner. I use search a lot in my photos app – I have 20k+ images, so it's a necessity for me – and it's been super inconvenient compared to the bottom nav bar from before.

Agreed. And that it is a solid blue looks it’s selected