Ask HN: What’s Going on with Apple Design?

I’ve recently seen a few stories like this:

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/10/07/app-store-connect-fresh-icon/

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/23/macos-big-sur-battery-history-and-estimates/

What’s going on with Apple? The icons are inconsistent and un-Apple; I’m very surprised such designs ever got out to the public.