Agreed, the weird generic helmet face is so bland.
I wouldn’t have one problem with the UIs look if it wasn’t clunky as well.
Even In-Game, the UI is harder to use and manipulate.
They put status effects at bottom left, on a phone that gets covered up by your thumbs.
They put social pings top right, and when I open it, it covers 40% of my effective screen. That’s even further away from their goal, of making pings usable during fights, than last patch.
They made the mini-map less aesthetic. Will take some getting used to, but still annoying.
I believe most of this UI overhaul and ingame panel changes took place to accommodate 5v5 with as little effort as possible so that they could focus their time and resources on ironing out 5v5 gameplay for launch.
I optimistically expect that they improve on these changes further until we get that polished look back again.