Transparent Buttons Look Unusably Hideous in Acrobat DC

I've been working on a PDF catalog for over a month now, and one of the features I had built into the InDesign document was some transparent rollovers. There is also a navigation sidebar that uses transparency to get the look I want. These items were looking great in previous versions of Acrobat, but now in Acrobat DC they look ABSOLUTELY AWFUL. Like, unusable. Something is messed up with the transparency rendering of buttons.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue with Acrobat DC?
Please tell me this is a bug that will be fixed immediately. I'm hoping to send this catalog out to clients in two weeks, but now if any of them have upgraded to Acrobat DC, they'll get interactive elements that look disgusting and unreadable. Which makes our company look bad. Which I am NOT AT ALL happy about. !

Yes, I'm having the exact same problem. I upgraded to Acrobat DC and now a project I'm working on with transparent buttons looks horrible. Not sure what to do. It looks fine in Reader but if anyone opens it in Acrobat DC it will look terrible. Here's a comparison of the buttons as they look in:
Reader
and Acrobat DC

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