Material Design in Chromium 71

[Rand]

Okay, I'm not a big knower of Chrome (never used it, started Chromium browsers with UC before switching to Cent), but I still don't understand: what are the problems with the new tab shape?

I've nothing against them, really, for me it's just an aesthetic choice as any other. Personally I even like the new one more because on my Surface it reduced drastically the number of "wanted-to-activate-a-tab-but-it-was-another-one-I-pressed" things...

Thanks for explanations.

Aside from the purely aesthetic reasons of just thinking it looks bad for any number of reasons that don't really merit going into, it's over-sized and wastes screen space to accomplish the same task the previous design did just as well. I have a finite amount of space for the tabs, and I don't need things getting larger without tangible benefit to me. I like to have a number of tabs open, it's more difficult to cleanly do so with the new design.
I also object to the very minimal differentiation between active/inactive tabs leading everything to blend together with no real delineation between them.