It is not weird. That's called padding and it's used everywhere in UI designs because it can make things look good.
I was looking for alternatives but I didn't find any good ones. This looks nice, thanks!
I'll probably go with this. Thanks!
i was thinking vertically
Padding is a very versatile thing in UI design, and none of it will make anything look terrible.
Even in your first example, the toolbar has slight padding on the edges and so do the buttons.
The reason there's more padding now is because it makes it easier for new users to process everything.
I haven't gotten it yet. I notice that google will release anything they announce months after. It took ages for the editing feature to finally appear in google messages for me.
Google UI devs will do anything but follow their own material guidelines
Just a tip, you can make those iamge links display inline by doing this:
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I like the layout but the design is worse, you have to reach even further up to access search. the colors also look slightly worse imo.
This comment gets it mostly correct