Design Overriding Functionality

My first mac was a Perfoma 600. I've always enjoyed the ease of use and the continuity of function between the applications made for macs. It was all intuitive. If you knew how to use a mac, you already had a giant leg-up on proficiency with an app you'd never used before.
Apparently, the design aesthetic at Apple nowadays is to get rid of all functionality and make everything small and colorless and hide most of the controls. Controls are hidden in layers and you have to search for them. Toolbars are colored in white and light gray and pale salmon. The calendar, after many months of the latest incarnation where the current day is set off by a small red dot, is still an act of spending time searching for a red dot instead of being able to quickly identify it.
It's all about being grayed out and subtle and hidden, and quite frankly, that is not useful, but a pain in the a** to use. Why is this bizarre design aesthetic so important, trumping ease of use? I just don't get it.

I've been using the MacOS since 10.5 and every version up to 10.10. The overall functionality in the user-interface has not changed in any significant way.
The calendar could use a bit of connectivity and month clarity improvements, but that is why http://apple.com/feedback is available.
Sounds like you need to bump up the contrast ratio...
System Preferences > Accessibility

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