Ex-Apple designer Alan Dye did not leave the company by himself, and a new report on Sunday says that he took others with that pioneered Liquid Glass with him. As we've said before, there is no possibility that Apple will ditch this overhaul.

Apple's Liquid Glass redesign of all of its operating systems from iPhone to Mac may have proven divisive, and it was certainly spearheaded by Alan Dye. But there is no possibility that it will be dropped, even as Bloomberg now reports that several designers left alongside Dye when he moved to Meta.

This new report from Mark Gurman's "Power On" newsletter says that Apple whipped out Liquid Glass as a wild card to distract from its failings in Apple Intelligence. But then in the same breath, the report also says that Liquid Glass was many years in the making.

Of course it was. Of course it was approved at every level of Apple.

And of course it is not going away.

This design is the first time Apple has ever implemented one theme across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. Even Apple has not managed to do this before, because it is an enormous, coordinated effort.

It didn't come out as a wild card last-second idea, it is so deep-rooted into each of these separate operating systems that it is a massive job that took years of concerted effort.

Apple is unlikely to be pleased that Alan Dye quit for Meta — although reportedly some in the company were very happy at the news. Tim Cook must surely have grumbled a bit when other designers went with him.

But Liquid Glass must represent hundreds of thousands of hours of engineering work by designers throughout the company. It's not as if Apple could now pull it like an upset lover tearing photos of their ex in half.

Liquid Glass won't go, but it will change. It's just that it would have changed anyway — exactly as happened with iOS 7. That was previously the most marked and controversial redesign of any Apple operating system, and it evolved over the following years.

That's what will happen here. But if there actually is an impact on Liquid Glass following Dye's departure, it's that Apple appears to be back to focusing on design.

Dye never earned a spot on Apple's Leadership page the way Jony Ive did when he had similar responsibilities at Apple. But now Dye's replacement Steve Lemay is on there, as is his equivalent designer in hardware, Molly Anderson.

Expecting Liquid Glass to be switched off is ridiculous. But Apple will for certain iterate on it over the next few years.