I've not seen it in person yet, but from pics I kinda like it, looks clean. I work in IT and support Macs in our environment. I've not seen this on Macs I use/own, but many times I will see users' speaker grills gummed up with dust, other yuckies. So at least in that regard I like this change.
Really disappointed in the 1st DLC being pushed from summer to "fall 2023". I'm guessing the 2nd DLC won't actually be "winter 2023" either.